Rewinding Life

I love movies. So much that when asked to name my "favorite" movie or even a list of my "Top 5" (or what have you), I have difficulty.

But one of them will always be "It's A Wonderful Life". I could go on about the zillion reasons I love it as a cinephile (as much as I hate that term). Right now I'm focusing on the idea of how one person's existence can change another's for good.

(This is not about abortion for chicken and fried dumplings' sake. Too many evil people in this world that you all have spent taxpayer money on to have jailed & killed who could have been abortions just as well.)

So many of us go through our lives feeling like we have never made a difference in anyone else's. We can easily name the people who influenced us, pivoted and even maybe changed our courses. These people were our George Baileys; if not for their existence, our lives would be give screwed.

Yet why is it so hard to believe we are someone else's George Bailey? I mean, that's the entire point of the movie - if you were never born, at least one person would have suffered from you not being present in their life.

This is an interesting concept. Would your family simply reshuffle? Would your school have let one more student in? Obviously you are not hired; how does that switch things up??

Sonny Hate

Okay, so going to put up with my love for General Hospital, hatred for Sonny. I was lured in by "Ryan's Hope" (shout out to the Joe/Shiobhan shippers).

I'll See You In Heaven if You Make the List

Listening to REM's Automatic For the People. Perhaps one of those CDs you need to get away from for awhile to appreciate better upon your return.

Readying to bury your father and your mother
What did you think when you lost another?
I used to wonder, why did you bother?
Distanced from one, blind to the other

Listen here my sister and my brother
What would you care if you lost the other?
I always wonder, why did we bother?
Distanced from one, blind to the other

Oh, but sweetness follows

It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and wonder
I always knew this altogether thunder
Was lost in our little lives

Oh, but sweetness follows
Oh, but sweetness follows

It's these little things, they can pull you under
Live your life filled with joy and thunder
Yeah, yeah we were altogether
Lost in our little lives

Oh, but sweetness follows

NOh, but sweetness follows

Observations:

Girls today wearing booty shorts... I have too much and not enough.

Enjoying "The Amazing Race", but don't think it matters if a couple is a "Blind Date" or "Dating"; you either work together on this show or don't.

Mom... Zoe was curious about homosexual relationships/marriages. When you had no answers for her, I offered to intervene. You said "no". She could not talk to me. I said I would like to speak with her as I was her "parent". My mother said "oh really?!?". And that was the end of that. I am not allowed to talk to my own daughter about any subject that my mother does not approve of.