Talking about the film Love Actually in my 6th Form registration time this morning has made me think about Hugh Grant and whether or not it is actually possible to lead a life like it seems every one of his character's do.
In the film it seems even the most terrible scenarios come together at the end, all is well and happy. I know everyone says it (if they don't they think it) but I would just adore to live in a movie. Create it in my mind and play it over and over every day, different stories becoming a reality. Except my movie wouldn't be like Love Actually, it'd be something like Alice in Wonderland. Intellectual, I'm sure.
But in all seriousness, when did things become so complicated? Why is it that it's even possible, in some aspects, for a 17 year old to have the same amount of stress as a 40 year old. Escaping to a hole in the ground could be the only solution for getting away! Even when I leave the country for a holiday, my father is at the pub watching the news or has a newspaper everyday to keep us all up-to-date with the horrors of the world.
If everyone could just choose one week a year in which they could click their fingers, go into a world they had been making up in their head and live it just like any other day, we'd all be so refreshed! You could do anything you wanted, be whoever your brain could muster up and cause all the trouble in the world or just sit and watch as cartoon caterpillar walked, or shuffled, past you.
I'd be the best known director in the world, with people constantly telling me what a great job I'd done on that last thriller I created. I think being congratulated for something you've created yourself is the best type of praise. I didn't work out that really hard maths equation that anyone could do if they put their mind to it, or answer an incredibly hard History question, but I created something that no-one else would have thought of, because it's mine and my brain conjured it up. That would be the best day.
Hello there - oh to be 17 again! I'm an old work colleague of your dad's so happened across your blog via his. I just wanted to urge you to keep at it - you've got a lovely turn of phrase and I really love and admire your honesty. Growing up is tough, especially when you're riddled with women's hormones. But - it does get easier. Then harder again. Then easier...as Shakespeare once said: "There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." good luck with writing, uni and everything else - you will do great, promise.
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