It's no secret that I'm a movie fanatic. I dare not say how many screenings I've attended during the past year, but I can assure you that it's enough to earn my own intervention-style reality show.
Movies are simply excellent. I typically see them as a chance for escape rather than purely for entertainment. Allow me to recline with popcorn in hand and I can shut out the world for a few hours, regardless of any academic commitments or personal problems. Let me live in the movie screen.
This brings me to my main concern. Lately, I've become concerned that maybe I watch too many movies. It's a harsh reality, really, when you begin to wonder if your favorite thing may be hindering you in some way. However, I sometimes wonder if life would be easier and even better if I lived in a movie.
Don't get me wrong. I have a great life and I'm more than blessed to be surrounded by great people and to have opportunities and the like. Life is good. Allow me to explain, though, why movie life could be better.
To say that I was left reeling after stopping by last week's graduate school fair would be an understatement. Having resigned myself to considering my future only when others probed me about it, being attacked by hundreds of options was a wake up call indeed. Where am I going after graduation? Should I have taken these tests? Where do I want to go to graduate school? Heck, do I even want to go to graduate school? Inundated with information, I decided to watch a movie so that my brain could relax before I shifted into research mode.
That wasn't the best idea. I had never really noticed, but the most appealing characters in many movies seem to be doctors, lawyers, corporate executives or one of the especially lucky ones who make a living being especially creative. In short, they're all successful and typically beautiful and charming. And even if they're "between jobs," they somehow scrape by in a three-bedroom loft apartment overlooking Central Park. Must be nice.
In films, finding professional success seems effortless. When the na
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