It made us laugh, made us cry, made us sympathize. It also made me do something I always, always find myself doing after watching a romantic comedy: get creative.
Not just creative with writing or drawing or that sort of thing. But becoming creative with myself.
Who am I?
What do I like to do? What don't I like to do?
Could I relate to any of those characters? Could I see myself in their shoes, with their jobs and their life style? What kind of character would I be in a movie?
I came home tonight and began asking my mom a series of questions:
"Could you see me as a chef?"
"Remember when I wanted to be a chef?" [Insert imaging myself running a restaurant... not a horribly awful idea... in fact, it pleasurably amuses me.]
"Mom, could you see me being as good an actress as Meryl Streep?"
As my mom answers in the affirmative and begins explaining why, I silently pretend to act. I pretend I'm angry at my child. Then I pretended I was just proposed to out of the blue to someone I had recently cheated on.
My mind races through many thoughts of different ideals and I begin to yearn for paper... or a napkin! Just anything to write on. I want to write these thoughts down. Like a writer of a movie... let's capture this character in the moment!
Long story short... here I am. Writing this out. Just sharing my feelings. Perhaps one day after I finish watching When Harry Met Sally or You've Got Mail and I have this same exact feeling, I'll come back to this post and re-read it.
Yes... I feel creative. Let's work on me. Let's do something to create finer detail on me. I'm like a character in a movie... or a really good book.
... and I pretend... I pretend everyone wants to get to know me.
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