Sunday, April 10, 2011

Eat Pray Love

On Friday, I got to do something different, something pleasurable and out of the ordinary. I had planned a while back to have some friends over and just have a get together having not done so in a long time, as well, Friday was my fourth baptism anniversary. Well, having some friends over didn't quite work out, but I did get the chance to spend time with one friend in particular. We had a great night of conversation, preparing food, and watching Eat Pray Love.

Yes, this movie could be stereotyped as one of those motivation filled and inspirational movies, but something really stood out for me. So the plot is something like this, a lady (Liz) in her midlife divorces and her life just seems to be spiraling in a bad direction so due to concidental or not happenings in her life, she decides to travel for a year to Italy, India, and Bali. Hence, she finds food, faith, and love in that order. When Liz is in Italy, she really enjoys herself, she eats when she feels like it not caring if she gained weight or not, not caring what others thought of her, not caring if she needed to fit in a bigger size, she was happy and that was what matter(though the actress never looks "bigger" throughout the film-acting eh?). Anyways, in one scene she was about to get her hair done and she was talking to an acquaintance about how pleasurable her life was at the moment, how worry free and enjoyable it seemed to be. One client in the store over hears this and tells her in a strong Italian accent, its because your American. You Americans always feel like you have to earn pleasure, earn time off, earn this, earn that, you have to set aside time to do something you like, but we Italians do it whenever we feel like it-with no strings attached (something along the lines of this)

Having this Italian man say this just made me think about how true his words are. Sometimes we don't think we deserve a break or that we should be working instead of playing. Yet, when we do have a break, it never seems to last long enough. Perhaps everyday should have an inclusion of something worthy of our time, something pleasurable that we don't schedule ahead of time, but do it when the thought arises. Maybe that will make each day more worthy, more fabulous.

Now that school is near its end, I find myself treating myself more-in a good way. Though I've been sick (almost done, thanks for the prayers) predominately last weekend, I worked for a few hours despite calling in sick,got off early and did some shopping, sponatenously walked into a salon for a haircut, went to lazer tag for HS fellowship (thinking I wouldn't play, but ended up playing one round)and had a delicious meal with two friends afterward. It felt really good. On the outside my throat was clogged, my nose was stuffed, my head was a little drowzy, I kept getting cough attacks, but on the inside, it just felt so nice not being held back by time, not being rushed, not having to think even.

I guess what I want to say is that we don't need to think we deserve something in order to experience it, though there are exceptions. Of course, don't go out and buy yourself a new car when you can't even afford tuition. However, sometimes a nice treat doesn't have to be hold off. It can be now.


Perhaps we all need to be a little more Italian.

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