ONE WEEK

Well Hello there boys and girls, Long time no talk. Sorry for my long absence, apparently I was out trying to find myself. And in doing that it made me think of a quote that I love so much. it goes a little something like this, "to find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses you must first believe there would be some advantage in finding it. And you know now for the longest time I didn't really believe that. It's funny how everything can all change in just one week.

I'm not going to sit here and tell you that last week was a life changing week for me because that would just be entirely too dramatic. What I am going to say that it was a perspective changing week for me. And just how exactly did my perspective change, well I will take this time to tell you that.

MOVIES!!!! That's normally how it is with me, there is something about the magic of movies that I just can't get aways from. The only thing that can over take that feeling is the magic of baseball of course, but that's really neither here nor there. So what movies were these that made me come back to writing, and telling all of you my secrets? Well it was three of them and they are, HOW DO YOU KNOW, SUPER 8, and MIDNIGHT IN PARIS.

Now I'm not going to go into my normal long winded reviews of each movie because at the moment I just really don't feel like it, but let me just say that all three of these movies are great movies. HOW DO YOU KNOW is the perfect grown up romantic comedy and I will fight to the death anyone who thinks any differently. SUPER 8 is a throw back to why we all feel in love with movies as kids the wonderment of it all. I needed that feeling. And then there is MIDNIGHT IN PARIS this movie surprised me on every level and as a sat through this movie and laughed and watched others laugh at this movie that is just so specific for a certain audience I realize just how many people there are like me out there, and I think it finally just all clicked for me.

But it wasn't just the movies that changed everything for me. The movies were important but the thing that changed it all was a long talk with my sister this weekend. Who know that going to Medieval Times and then talking to my sis until 3 in the morning would change everything. I could get into all the interesting things that we talked about but lets just say that is for another day. What I can tell you is this, I think I'm kind of done with trying to live up the the expectations of some. And let me tell you that after spending quite some time trying to do just that I realize that it really never is gonna be enough.

I watched a movie just about a month ago, funny thing it was called one week. It was about a guy who finds out that he has one week to live and only then does he finally go out and do the things that he wanted to do his whole life. I think I myself am going to take that approach.

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." -Tennyson