Inga M. Beck

Now, I’ve been writing a lot about my favorite films. Yet another one is French Kiss with Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline.
Now, I’m not gonna go on and on about it, I only want to mention the thing I love about it the most. How when everything goes to hell, you can still have the time of your life.

This doesn’t just happen in movies. Not to say that if you go to France there are great odds you will fall in love with someone who wants to have a vineyard and live happily ever after in rural France. More that it happens all the time, where you risk everything and dive into the unknown to go after something you feel you need.

I think I’ve gone through this a few times myself. Just where everything seems to be going to the burning place downstairs you find that place inside you where you keep that extra strength, hope and dreams. Sometimes finding that place is also realizing that what you thought you wanted before is in fact, NOT what you want OR need.

It is one of those truly great things about life. No matter how shitty your life is, crappy job, crappy house, your fiance left you for a french bimbo… you can always find joy in something else. Things are NEVER so crappy that you cannot find something to be happy about, even if it’s just a pretty little lady bug on a pretty flower. And it is that miracle that I believe is the reason mankind isn’t extinct. The fact that we can find pleasure in little things, find hope in the darkest of times is keeping us alive. Our ability to DREAM and do great things for people we care about as well as ourselves is what makes life bearable.

Yeah, that’s pretty much what I wanted to say today. Love your life, don’t be afraid of the worst that could happen, because at some point it will happen, and you will still find the strength to carry on, and probably stronger and better than you were before =)