Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo why must you be over beautiful book! I never wanted you to endddddddd. how could I not love it? It was the story of a woman trying to create/recreate/find balance in her life! It is one of those books that reminds you how wonderful it is to let your imagination run wild and makes you feel like there is nothing else in the world you could possibly need or want except to get lost in this beautiful piece of literature. The book ended with the author's favorite Italian word, "Attraversiamo!" (lets cross over). She said it as she and her Brazilian lover jumped over the edge of their boat..together.. into the (presumably) beautiful waters on their (most likely) beautiful Indonesian Island. I read it at a park next to some water. The first thing I did after I closed the book was jump in (onto a concrete step about up to my ankles.. that counts right?). Then I did a cartwheel. Then I sent a text message.
I'm going to document the things that jumped out at me.
"He laughed with me, not getting the joke, of course, but loving the idea that people make jokes."
Perfect. I think this is how I live my life most of the time (or at least how i strive to), why I love good theater and "bad" theater and all theater and things that are happy-go-lucky and things that are sad and depressing. I just love expressions of humanity and people trying to give life and breath and meaning to their time here on this Earth (although I think I tend to veer towards expressions of light and optimism). I think that maybe I will start to include this in my definition of love and my formula for living. When we are too busy studying a piece of media/outpouring of emotion (a play, movie, Hallmark card, letter, etc.etc.etc. for its latent intent and when we extend all our energy towards trying to uncover its "true meaning" or what the author/producer of the material "really meant to say" when he/she created it and then using the information gathered during our speculation as a way to judge the relative quality of the material in question (hahahahahaha this sounds so scientific I just laughed out loud) then we miss out on...... wow I just lost my train of thought and don't feel like going back to find it. Something about humans being fallible. So we should let them experience that aspect of themselves. I just like to find reasons to be happy and spread happiness even if the way I interpret or the fragmented pieces I take away from the material I consume might be classified as "wrong." Who cares? Creative genius is half misinterpretation anyway!... I feel a tangent coming on... maybe in a new blog...
I think it will work if you allow/appreciate that I am like this and if I allow/appreciate that you are exactly not...
Anyway, omg I am in love with this idea... and the idea of new ideas.. which is why I'm going to grad school hahaha!
"To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life."
Oh man, this sounds delicious!
And while I'm on the subject of balance... which I tend to be a lot... I LOVE BALI.. or the idea of it at least!
"The family compound is so vital that the Balinese think of it as a single, living person....When this system works - which it does in this healthy society almost all the time - it produces the most sane, protected, calm, happy, and balanced human beings in the world. But when it doesn't work?... The outcasts are lost in airless orbit"
Sane, protected, calm, happy, and balanced. sweet. so cool and spot on. People go crazy when they are afraid and they are afraid because they can't trust/rely on the people/things in their lives. Imagine being surrounded by a family/person that would love you..or at least stay with you.. unconditionally, no matter what. It's what we claim to do in America, although really we don't... but we also don't really put love on a pedestal here.. we put things like intelligence and money and success and fame and fortune on it instead. Damn Americans! =)
This is from a book that my one of my Aunts told me about... it's called The Outliers. It's about a group of people in Penn who's life expectancy (on the whole) was extremely high...
“There was no suicide, no alcoholism, no drug addiction, and very little crime. They didn’t have anyone on welfare. These people were dying of old age. That’s it.”
The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell... “They looked at how the Rosetans visited each other, stopping to chat with each other in Italian on the street, or cooking for each other in their backyards. They learned about the extended family clans that underlay the town’s social structure. They saw how many homes had three generations living under one roof, and how much respect grandparents commanded.”
This sounds completely ridiculous, but I can't wait to have a family! Are there more important things in life than thisssssssssssssssss? I can't wait to create this safe place and give my heart to someone and know that they will give me theirs in return and then have some kids and love them too and teach them how great it is when you have someone you can rely on and then grow old and sit around doing nothing but experiencing old age with my husband who will be as content as I am!! How great it must be to be a grandparent.. your only job in life is to love... you don't have to raise or scold or put up with any of the stuff that parents do.. you just have to sit back and say things to your kids like "now you know how I felt!" and cook homemade donuts and buy presents and sit back and enjoy the dynasty you've headed! What a family does, I think, is eliminate one less variable from the mystery of life and success and realizing our potential and all that jazz. If we don't have to worry about having someone stand by you no matter what you get yourself in to then you can worry (connoted positively) about other things. And there is a lot of stuff to worry about!
Love is always the answer! (sidenote.. I was listening to "All you need is love" in the car the other night and I was overcome with this intense warm lovely feeling.. which was weird because that's the only time I've ever even really enjoyed that song.. it's always been sort of annoying to me for some reason.. anyway..) It always has and always will be! Love is a many splendored thing! Love lifts us up where we belong! All you need is love!
On a slightly different note, I watched The Nightmare Before Christmas the other day. It was equally as awesome and really funky and ingenious and dark and I was totally enthralled. I have to watch it (yet) again though. (laugh out loud) The two-faced mayor really freaked me out. He reminded me of this one scene in Pippin when we had to walk through the audience with an expressionless face and say excited things like "We're so happy to have you here!!" I'll have to sit and ponder why stuff like that freaks me out some time. Anyway, I thought it would be funny to bring up the Nightmare right after that passionate paragraph about love.
hahahaha!
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