Yup
Narrator: Most days of the year are unremarkable. They begin, and they end, with no lasting memories made in between. Most days have no impact on the course of a life. May 23rd was a Wednesday.
#500daysofsummer
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For What it’s Worth:
So do you ever watch a movie for the second time and you realize mid way through the movie you don’t remember the ending! So you start to perk up and pay even closer attention as the movie progresses. That happened to me today as I watched Stranger than Fiction. This was the final quote of the movie. And after the ending, it made me stop for a second and pull way way back..
“As Harold took a bite of Bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be ok. Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies. And, fortunately, when there aren’t any cookies, we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys and nose plugs, an uneaten Danish, soft-spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction. And we must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days, are effective for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives.”- Kay Eiffel. Stranger Than Fiction.
A year ago this month when I decided to embark on this journey of running my own painting business, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Only weeks into the program I would find myself coming home and complaining over the most trivial things about the business and the operations of starting up. Doubt starts to settle in your mind to whether you’re good enough or capable of handling such a task. Soon the emotional dissonance begins to the point where it’s tiresome, not to mention the complaining that still lingers within and then I wonder why I’m not happy. And with all these thoughts in my head, I don’t think to connect the dots. For Harold, in the times of despair leading towards his “eminent death”, it was the simple things in life he overlooked that literally saved his life. For what it’s worth, that turning point for me was the simple enjoyment of running. You’re on mile seven of nine and you start to think your body can’t take anymore so you want to give up and walk to rest of the way. In the moment nothing else matters but breathing and taking each stride until you finish the run; forget the clients, forget the appointments and forget the leads that were stressing you out. When you finish you realize that you’re still ok and not dead. Then comes the realization of all things you thought were issues and problems occurring in your life right now are nothing compared to the grand scheme of things. And you remember how lucky we all are to be here right now. And so you find that your life is actually pretty damn awesome. As I’m writing this I’m also laughing to think that running, yes running made me realize all of this….I think. #yolo.
