In life, moments of pure ecstasy seldom happen. No, I don't mean sexual euphoria. I just mean unadulterated... joy. And when these moments do happen, the circumstances are rather unremarkable, most of the time. Take for example, one of life's circumstances that ALWAYS manage to gift me the privilege of that ecstasy.
A really good movie. I know few other ways in which a human ends up... not just feeling, but EMOTING. Those are two drastically different things. Feeling is passive, while emoting is decidedly active. But I've gotten off track. Really good movies... I love the way the world seems when I walk out of one. Especially if the movie was inspirational in some way. The world doesn't seem so apathetic and pessimistic. After a great movie, lassitude doesn't exist to any degree. The only way my mind wanders is the direction of optimism. After a movie like this, my problems don't seem quite as important as I thought they were. I also don't seem as important as I thought I was.
Sadly, this refreshing, effervescent perspective seems to only last as long as the drive home from the theatre (though sometimes it may last well into the following day). I wonder why that is? What unremarkable life circumstance(s) make(s) you feel the way I just described?
P.S. The movie that inspired this blog entry was Up in the Air. You should definitely see it in theatres! :)
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