When We First Met
It's been awhile since I've been on here. I can't say that I've been busy because I really haven't. I just haven't thought about it in awhile. I really haven't had anything to vent about really. Haven't really needed this at all. I've been at home all day. Last night I felt like I was dying. I woke up around 2am in a lot of pain. It felt like someone was squeezing something inside me. I was throwing up and shitting everywhere. It lasted a few hours, but I was able to fall back asleep at around 6am. I called into work today. I've spent most of the day in my bedroom, so bored with video games that I decided to actually watch a movie. There wasn't much on Netflix but I found this one that had Adam DeVine in it and this girl that was in another movie I watched not too long ago so I decided to check it out. I didn't really expect much out of it. It was actually decently funny. It's about this dude Noah who meets this girl Avery at a Halloween party. They seem to hit it off. He liked her A League of Their Own costume and that's what started their conversation. So the two go to a piano bar where Noah plays the piano at and they realize they both like jazz music. They decide to go to her house and there are tons on things about the house that he likes. He goes in for a kiss and they fast forward to three years later. They're at Avery's engagement party but she's marrying a guy named Ethan. Avery and Ethan had met the day after Noah and Avery met, when she went to get cereal to replace what Noah had eaten. Noah and Avery never kissed, she hugged him. Noah is so drunk that he goes into the bathroom and throws up. He blames it on the food. Avery's friend Carrie takes Noah home. Noah tells Carrie that he's in love with Avery and that if he could just relive that night they met, that he would do everything right and they'd kiss. He goes to the photo booth at his work to take pictures, not realizing that it's a time machine. He realizes he's gone back in time, and tries to recreate the night to make him look better. He fails miserably. Avery and Carrie believes he's a stalker. Fast forward again three years and Avery is still marrying Ethan. He decides to go back again. This time he takes advice from his friend and is an asshole to her at the party. They hook up. He wakes up again three years later with her in his bed and realizes he's a huge douche and they just use each other for sex. They go jogging and he realizes again that Avery and Ethan end up together. So he goes back again, decides to get a real job. Wakes up three years later to realize that he's super rich, and that he and Avery are engaged. He has gotten fat and that he stabbed his best friend in the back to get a promotion. Then he realizes how much time he actually spends working, and realizes that Avery is not happy. He's late to the engagement party because of work, and goes in to find Avery and Ethan in the bathroom. Ethan is drunk and puking but blames it on the food. Noah decides to take Ethan home, and Ethan tells Noah that he told Avery that he was in love with her and that her response was "well if only things were different". He realizes that Avery isn't happy with him, and that it was meant for her to be with Ethan all along. So he returns home hours later to see Carrie sitting at the kitchen table. He decides to ask her about Avery. She tells him that she doesn't love him, but she's comfortable with him. He then realizes that every time he goes back in time, he ends up sitting and getting advice from Carrie, which is weird, because they don't like other for the simple fact that they never really got to know each other. So he goes back in time again, grabs Ethan and takes him to the party where Noah had met Avery. They hit it off. Noah decides to hit on Carrie. So when Ethan asks Avery about her costume he's like "I've ever seen that movie". Avery says "neither have I, Carrie made it". Then when the four of them go to the piano bar, you realize that Carrie was the one who turned Avery on to jazz, and that she knows how to play the piano as well. Everything that Noah had liked in their house was actually Carrie's. So they hit it off. He wakes up three years later to find that him and Carrie never developed a relationship because she started dating her ex. He also missed the engagement party because he introduced Avery and Noah one day earlier than what they had originally met, and it threw everything off. He realizes that he was supposed to meet Avery that night, and everything was supposed to go the way it had originally went. He goes back to the photo booth, meets Avery, they hug. Fast forward to the engagement party three years later, him and Carrie decide to go grab a drink. The credits are photos of Carrie and Noah's life together.
That's a long ass description of the movie, and if you're still here then I'll tell you my thoughts on it. Obviously I can't go back in time to change the way my life has turned out. But it got me thinking, how many things have I ignored or been oblivious to because I've been in a relationship with the person who I thought was the one. Think about it. I was with Jamie for those years, jumped right into Amber, then Karissa, then Kacye, then Whitney and Sarah. In all those relationships, I'm like I found the one I was meant to be with. What if there was a better match for me out there, but I was blind to it because I thought I was happy in something I thought was meant to be. I only got with Sarah because I was older and realized that I could do worse. She didn't annoy me hardly. I had made the decision to stay with her for the rest of my life because I was comfortable enough with her. I mean, I did love her but in different circumstances, maybe if we were both younger would I have persued her? I don't know. I'm at the age now where I think about these things. Did I put my eggs in the wrong basket and will it haunt me for the rest of my life? I really don't ever think I'll put myself in a situation to be hurt again. Right now, I'm truly happy with my place in life and it's taken me awhile to get there. I don't want anything or anyone to ruin that.
That's a long ass description of the movie, and if you're still here then I'll tell you my thoughts on it. Obviously I can't go back in time to change the way my life has turned out. But it got me thinking, how many things have I ignored or been oblivious to because I've been in a relationship with the person who I thought was the one. Think about it. I was with Jamie for those years, jumped right into Amber, then Karissa, then Kacye, then Whitney and Sarah. In all those relationships, I'm like I found the one I was meant to be with. What if there was a better match for me out there, but I was blind to it because I thought I was happy in something I thought was meant to be. I only got with Sarah because I was older and realized that I could do worse. She didn't annoy me hardly. I had made the decision to stay with her for the rest of my life because I was comfortable enough with her. I mean, I did love her but in different circumstances, maybe if we were both younger would I have persued her? I don't know. I'm at the age now where I think about these things. Did I put my eggs in the wrong basket and will it haunt me for the rest of my life? I really don't ever think I'll put myself in a situation to be hurt again. Right now, I'm truly happy with my place in life and it's taken me awhile to get there. I don't want anything or anyone to ruin that.