Monday, October 12, 2009

Two Seconds to New

I used to be this person who believed in romance.
I believed in that happily ever after part at the end of the movie.
When the two lovers find their love.
The moments that bring a smile and let everyone know the world is ok.

Some where along the way I let it go.

I became cynical;
Jaded
Weary
Lackluster
Worn out.

I unlearned the meanings of beauty;
Passion
Happiness
Belief
Love.

Instead I started focusing on darkness;
Sad
Deception
Paranoia
Hollow.

I started noticing the one second in the film.
The exact millisecond before they get it.
In that second they are as low as they can go
It is always their breaking point; hope through the hopelessness.

In the film they come away from it.
Characters are written to find the perfection in the millisecond that follows.
The starkly distant moment from the reality they just lived.
In a new moment everything is whole.

They find inside themselves the strength;
Wisdom
Nobility
Trust
Courage.

I want my second second.
I want it now.
It is time to write it.
Time to arc.

7 comments:

pastrywitch said...

Here's to your second! Beautiful piece.

wv: dermun. noun. demon of limited intelligence.

TERI REES WANG said...

Oh, no!..
You're not one of those who talk through every scene, ruining it for the rest of us who actually like to watch it all unfold on it's own..?!
So acknowledge that your taste has changed, and move on.

Stop. Shift. and Risk.

> Go see some stupid-fresh-knee-slapper like "Hangover".
And then go see something so strikingly stunning as "The Piano".
...And..then...shop something so odd and old as "A Star is Born" with Kris & Babs. Mix it up.


OR> you can claim a new mix of movies where the sex scenes look like there's no acting involved at all!

>"Brown Bunny"2003:
Chloe Sevigny & Vincent Gallo;gross.
>"Wild Orchid"1990:
Mickey Rourke & Carre Otis
>"The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea"1976:
Kris Kristofferson & Sarah Miles
>"Don't Look Now" 1973:
Donald Sutherland & Julie Christie


Open mind...;P

Elizabeth Bradley said...

Great title.

Rosebud Collection said...

Now the way I read this blog and I could be wrong..which is quite often..Sure the happy endings in movies are not always real..but you leave the theater happy. In life, it is up to us, to make our own happiness.

High Desert Diva said...

Time to arc.

I like that.

Almost Precious said...

It's hard to forever be the romantic. This world makes it difficult to nurture that naiveté, bombarding us with the news and events everywhere we turn...wish there was a way to turn it all off or at lest tune it out...all the negativity...it's gotten so even children can't be children anymore. Maybe Fredonia wouldn't be such a bad place to live!

ginger said...

gawgeous!!! really...