Insightful Evening

This evening really was pretty delightful. I am finally back in Indy...not that I didn't really appreciate all the loving care and attention of my family, but I was getting to the point that I was relying on them for things that I could probably have done myself. And as much as I know it upset my dad to see me leaving this afternoon...I suppose it's partly his fault for raising such a fiercely independent daughter (actually three fiercely independent daughters). I know the only way I'm gonna get better is by being stubborn enough to make myself better..without overdoing it of course.

Then to celebrate my return to our little slice of heaven, my sister rented a few of her all-time favorite chick flicks and we had a movie night. Someone Like You and Serendipity were her choices...both of which I have completely fallen in love with. I don't think I love them because they are particularly well made or anything...but both are movies that kind of make ya think.

If you don't know the movies, you should see them because I'm too lazy to give any in depth plot summaries right now...but I do fully intend to share a few revelations and movie quotes.

"The Greeks didn't write obituaries. When someone died they simply asked, 'Did he live with passion?'"--Serendipity
That is awesome...maybe it doesn't really matter so much what you do with life, maybe it's how you do it. Maybe sometimes you have to make a fool of yourself if the situation is worth it...or maybe you have to go out on a limb...or risk pissing off those around you...maybe that's what it's all about. What if in the end God doesn't care what you did during your lifetime (short of the mortal sins)...maybe all he/she is going to care about is whether or not you made the absolute most of your time on Earth?

Does fate or destiny or a soulmate really exist? Is everything part of some preconceived plan for each one of us...guided only slightly by the choices we make? How many times during any given day is life giving us signals to guide us in the right direction or point us toward where we're supposed to be? What happens when you aren't receptive to those signals or when you choose to ignore "fate's plan" in an attempt to create your own plan?

Are we all someone's old cow?...or maybe the new cow? Could the "old cow theory" really hold true...at least for some men at some point in their lives? (At this point I guess I will quickly explain the theory: a bull will only mate with a cow once before wanting to move on to the next cow. In theory the same could apply to men: the male is constantly in search of a new "cow" when he tires of the old "cow"...thus explaining the fidelity issues of many men.) I think at some point most men (and most women too for that matter) probably do fall prey to this mentality...at least on some level, they feel that urge to explore greener pastures. The difference lies in how they choose to execute their search for a new cow...they can woo the new cow by profressing a false undying love and painting a bright and beautiful future or they can be upfront and make certain that the new cow understands that no opportunity exists for anything beyond a primal and emotionally void attachment.
That isn't at all to say that true love doesn't exist...that's the whole point of Someone Like You. Of course a truly selfless form of love does exist and we're all completely capable of finding it...but not every encounter is true love (or any kind of love at all) and sometimes it's nice to try to examine what's behind all those other encounters.

All right...that's really quite enough for one night.