This is the first time that I've spent Christmas eve and day alone, at home. I was prepared to be depressed and hopeless. I even expected to feel resentful that I was spending, what is normally a family day, alone but surprisingly, I didn't feel that way.
Friends called. Family texted. I made pasta and garlic bread. I settled down to watch TV around 9pm and I couldn't decide what to watch. I kept changing channels. I didn't know what I wanted to watch. Until I came across, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium on StarMovies.
It looked like my kind of movie... I mean, hello, TOYS! And Natalie Portman. Need I say more? Anyway, I didn't expect to be so bowled over by the movie, I especially loved the little boy Eric and the adorable way he just reached out and touched my heart.
And of course, Dustin Hoffman just.... I dunno... made me believe. In myself. I felt like he was talking to me. No, I didn't think I was Natalie Portman but I have lost all my faith in myself. Until he said this one particular line...
"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."
You know what? I believe I will.
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