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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Gravity is a bitch.

Apparently "The Holiday" is by far, this year, the movie I can relate to the most. And even though it's about three years old, if I had watched it, maybe my slow ass would have understood the past three years of my life wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better. Every woman should see this movie. Not because it has some insanely moving story line, but because at one point or another, you are going to relate to one of the female characters in the movie. And seeing that I have had my moments mirror that of "the loner, loser, and complicated wreck..." I've inevitably watched this movie more than neccessary the past few weeks. But more often I could relate to the emotional disaster....Kate Winslet. In two scenes, her words pretty much summed up my relationship status ( and obviously, lack there of....)


"I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas', the worst Birthday's, New Years Eve's brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can't swallow! All the usual symptoms........"

"I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade. "




Onto gravity...And I'm not talking about the fact that as the years pass, everything isn't quite the same as 17...But it's the only force that I can blame these days due to a.) denial, b.) utter stupidity, and c)my extreme overly bearing laziness which could quite possibly be misdiagnosed as sheer depression, all in which are an excuse to not get on here and vent more often. And that Sara Bareilles, boy she can send a bitch straight to her prozac bottle. Apparently, there's this song, Gravity....If you could copyright my emotions, here's what it would look like on paper, and sound like just to cut that obnoxious wound deeper....






Something always brings me back to you.
It never takes too long.
No matter what I say or do I'll still feel you here 'til the moment I'm gone.

You hold me without touch.
You keep me without chains.
I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

CHORUS
Set me free, leave me be. I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.

You loved me 'cause I'm fragile.
When I thought that I was strong.
But you touch me for a little while and all my fragile strength is gone.

Set me free, leave me be. I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity.
Here I am and I stand so tall, just the way I'm supposed to be.
But you're on to me and all over me.

I live here on my knees as I try to make you see that you're everything I think I need here on the ground.
But you're neither friend nor foe though I can't seem to let you go.
The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down


I really need to start listening to something heavier.....

2 comments:

Lena said...

You're back!
When I first read the movie title I thought of that other movie with Queen Latifah and thought, what the hell. But then I realized what you were talking about and it made sense. That movie is very relatable to women everywhere at one point or another.

I once read that the most romantic of all loves is unrequited love. That's if a person doesn't end up hanging themselves I suppose.

Bella said...

Ugh, finally. Life's been wearin my dowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn girl. Yeah I should have made the movie a little bit more clear....

unrequited love the most romantic? yeah death and self inflicted pain seems like a way more plausible sensation. I guess the jackass who said that was the one who didn't give a fuck about the person in love with them. either that or a total shakespeare fan forgetting that great writer or not, he still quite possibly wanted to play doctor with a school boy....