I think my life just changed a little bit. So much so that I turned on my computer at 12:30 in the morning so I could blog about it and talk it out. For Christmas I hit the motherload of DVD’s, and one of the best ideas, if I do say so myself, was telling my brother that I wanted the Garden State/Say Anything combo pack from target. He bought it and I just watched Garden State. Great idea, great movie, great life-changing moment.
So I have always liked Garden State well enough, saw it a few times here and there, but the times were few and far between. I asked for it for Christmas because it had been several years since I’ve seen it and I was kind of thinking “oh yeah, that’s a good movie I should own it…” Anyway, since it has been so long, for one I had forgotten why I liked it so much. What’s more, now that it’s been a few years since it came out (it came out the year I graduate high school), I was a little bit removed from the story. Now, I am the same age as the main characters, and holy crap, I LOVE the movie so much more!! I dont’ know if it’s because I feel like I can relate to the story better now that I am oh so familiar with this “quarter-life crisis” thing or what, but I am all sorts of up in arms and ready to change my world.
I think what I like the most is the ending, if you can really call it that. I LOVE that it is so open-ended. “…So what do we do?” Whatever we want! I feel like I have so many things that I still need to figure out, so many things that I need to decide, so many things to do, but damnit, I WANT to go somewhere that’s not here. I’m not talking geographically, I’m not talking physically, but I want to do new things, create new, unique moments. I want to live my life. I think this might have been a right place right time scenario with the movie. I have been talking about changing things up and doing new things for a long time, but tonight have the gumption…
Every year and the end of December I always get really pensive. I always think about the year that’s ending and the year that’s to come. I always have the same high hopes, the same happy-go-lucky ideas about the “best year yet…” but since I’ve gone back to school for my master’s degree, 2011 turned out to be about the same as 2010, which turned out to be about the same as 2009. 2012, however HAS to be different. I will defend my master’s thesis in January and commit to an extensive job search in Kansas City and Johnson County. I will graduate in May. I will have an MA next to my name in just a few short months! I will get a big girl job. I will move out of the parents’ house… This list goes on. I have been itchin for so freakin long, and for the first time in a long time I can taste it and I’m ready for it! All I have to do is act on it.
So has Garden State changed my life, or is my life changing so Garden State resonated with me more than it did the last time I saw it? Not sure which is a more accurate description. My point is this: 2012 WILL be new. So what do we do?…
