My personal carjacker

May 15, 2007 09:12

There is a Heather Graham movie, "Committed", where in one scene, our protagonist Joline is desperately in search of hope. (WARNING: SPOILER AHEAD). She spots a carjacker (if my memory serves me right) and when he realises that he's been caught, he apologises, saying that he's just in need of a break and that he didn't really want to do this. Joline, who is desperately in need of something to believe, hands over a $50 note, believing his story and implicitly telling our carjacker to go make something out of his life. At the end of the movie, our carjacker is tremendously successful and returns the $50, concluding the movie (or so if my memory serves me right - I'm getting a tad too old).

I feel like Joline many a-times. Some days, I just feel so low that I'm searching around for something to cling on to, something to believe that whatever I am trying to achieve with my life, that it's one step away from all going to hell. And in times like these, one turns around and searches for that moment like in the movie, only to find nothing quite as cinema-esque but instead, the next best thing- having to settle for moments of your favourite sitcoms off Youtube. I wonder, whether like me, people out there who are just in search of their personal carjackers. Because right now, I really do wish I had a scene like that in my life.
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