The Mirror has Two Faces

I love old movies. It’s comforting to see that despite all the ways the world has changed, human interactions are still very much the same. We still have the same issues, feel the same feelings, and can come to the same conclusions. Movies like “The Mirror has Two Faces” are timeless because they are able to capture true human emotions, interactions and experiences that keep repeating themselves, no matter the decade. I used to have similar beliefs on love as Jeff Bridges character. I felt love made people go out of their mind, and that it would be much better to put aside feelings of attraction and instead have uncomplicated relationships based on similar interest, trust, and a mutual caring for one other. But maybe that's just another lie that we tell ourselves. Maybe relationships are always complicated.
Feelings seemed so fickle. They could change like the weather. So easily manipulated, yet having such a strong impact on our lives. I wanted to base my life on something more concrete than feelings. Despite my efforts, whenever I tried to have a relationship without the feelings I was miserable. They would be everything I thought that I wanted. Turns out I didn’t want what I thought that I wanted. I want messy. I want complicated. It’s flaws that make us fall in love with someone. It’s our flaws that can show who we really are. Perfect becomes boring in time. It’s also unattainable. Maybe love is seeing the beauty in the flaws, excepting every part of someone. What if love is seeing each other as we really are? Perfectly imperfect.

The character Rose brings up another interesting topic in "The Mirror has Two Faces" with this quote.

"This thing that we call a wedding ceremony is really the final scene of the fairy tale. They never tell you what happens after. They never tell you that Cinderella drove the Prince crazy with her obsessive need to clean the castle, cause she missed her day job, right?"

The wedding does become the end of the story. Wouldn't this leave whole generations of women feeling lost after they get married? The only thing I can compare it to is graduation. The day after I graduated, I woke up with this feeling of emptiness and dread of "What am I supposed to do now?" Society needs to stop making the wedding seem like the happy ending. Our life doesn't end at the wedding, and neither should the movies.

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SPRING!

I'm so glad that spring is finally here! I had a bit of a bad start when it came to spring because over my first real day of spring break I was hit by a truck :( It was very tramatic. I'd only been in the car for five minutes and then when my friend was turning at a yellow light, we were hit in her little convertable right in the spot where I was sitting. All of the windows were up and they shattered right into my arm and neck. I'm almost all healed but they told me I need to wear sunscreen on my cuts for a year to avoid scarring. On a happier note, I spent most of yesterday after noon in a flower garden. It was so beautiful. All of the apple and crabapple trees were in bloom. It felt like heaven. When you walked you could smell the scent of flowers lingering in the air. Every where you looked was covered in flowers. I hope to get enough school done to go back tonight. My moms favorite part about spring is the lillacs. Mine is the happy colors and seeing things come back to life. Comment and let me know what your favorite parts of spring are! Or if you've been in a car crash, tell me your story! Then we can heal emotionally together :)