Rome-ing
Yesterday, mom and I watched "Eat Pray Love"
It was one of those movies where you shouldn't bring guys over to watch with you. Well, unless they're open to spending about 2 hours watching a woman deal with her emotional turmoil with less violence and with more self-loathing.
At the start, I thought that the protagonist was simply confused. That, if only she was willing to face the facts, she could have actually avoided single-handedly sabotaging her relatively comfortable life as a writer and wife.
But, halfway through the movie, I realized that we weren't that different after all. I also had moments like those, just wanting to escape and find something greater-- some greater purpose that made my existence worth it.
The big difference between the two of us was the fact that she could afford to drop everything and begin her soul searching... by traveling. Honestly, it still confounds me-- how someone who lost all their money could decide to run away to Rome... and then eat to their heart's content.
I suppose that everyone has that point in their life, when the comforts of life are just not enough. Heck, that was the whole point of my Masteral Thesis... to prove through a particular work of literature and an existential philosopher's ideas that we are all searching for something in life... and that there is always that feeling that something's missing... Until we reach that particular level of existence that's completely devoted to something much greater than ourselves.
In the case of my thesis, it was God who proved to be the final destination... and the lack of Him in the characters' lives was the main reason why they were always lost, aside from their lack of knowing what it was they truly wanted in life.
These are things I KNOW... but it's another thing to actually APPLY these ideas to real life. It takes a lot of will to move towards what you know is good for you-- very much like how I know vegetables are good for the body, but that it takes a lot of will to eat the good, bitter ones
For starters though, it might be a good idea to follow the advice of that movie-- Eat... Pray... Love. Although, I am going to take it all into a more Catholic perspective rather than the new age perspective of Liz. Nourish the body (but not too much), then nourish the soul (which one cannot get enough of, really)... and then release this goodness by learning to love others as well.
That third step is always the difficult one. :)
It was one of those movies where you shouldn't bring guys over to watch with you. Well, unless they're open to spending about 2 hours watching a woman deal with her emotional turmoil with less violence and with more self-loathing.
At the start, I thought that the protagonist was simply confused. That, if only she was willing to face the facts, she could have actually avoided single-handedly sabotaging her relatively comfortable life as a writer and wife.
But, halfway through the movie, I realized that we weren't that different after all. I also had moments like those, just wanting to escape and find something greater-- some greater purpose that made my existence worth it.
The big difference between the two of us was the fact that she could afford to drop everything and begin her soul searching... by traveling. Honestly, it still confounds me-- how someone who lost all their money could decide to run away to Rome... and then eat to their heart's content.
I suppose that everyone has that point in their life, when the comforts of life are just not enough. Heck, that was the whole point of my Masteral Thesis... to prove through a particular work of literature and an existential philosopher's ideas that we are all searching for something in life... and that there is always that feeling that something's missing... Until we reach that particular level of existence that's completely devoted to something much greater than ourselves.
In the case of my thesis, it was God who proved to be the final destination... and the lack of Him in the characters' lives was the main reason why they were always lost, aside from their lack of knowing what it was they truly wanted in life.
These are things I KNOW... but it's another thing to actually APPLY these ideas to real life. It takes a lot of will to move towards what you know is good for you-- very much like how I know vegetables are good for the body, but that it takes a lot of will to eat the good, bitter ones
For starters though, it might be a good idea to follow the advice of that movie-- Eat... Pray... Love. Although, I am going to take it all into a more Catholic perspective rather than the new age perspective of Liz. Nourish the body (but not too much), then nourish the soul (which one cannot get enough of, really)... and then release this goodness by learning to love others as well.
That third step is always the difficult one. :)