Thoughts

[eternal_synn]

I just watched American Beauty again, and it made me stop and think about things. It's amazing how much we take everything for granted. Throughout the movie, the boy next door filmed things because he was able to see the beauty in everything. In addition, the father made it clear that it was through death that he was finally able to relax and see how much beauty really surrounded him. While I enjoy seeing him finally starting to become someone he liked, it was sad to realize how much we do take the beauty around us for granted. It is in such simple thing as watching a bag 'dancing' in the wind.

Maybe we should stop and "smell the flowers" more often, and delight in the beauty around us. We needn't get so caught up in all the mundane shit; we need to come to a place where we can see the beauty around us and inside us.