Avatar

Just got done watching Avatar with my parents. (Yes, I have nothing better to do on a Friday night than hang with my parents...I love them, but still)...Not that I'm hear to wallow in self pity, on the contrary, I think deep down there isn't any other way I would have like to spend the first night of my weekend. I think the only reason why I would be wallowing in self pity is because of the pressure people put on the weekend as a time to get out, THEY see it as pity, I see it as relaxation :)

Anyway, now that I wasted a paragraph on that, let me get to Avatar. I personally think it is a pretty bomb movie. It's one of those movies that leaves you with a feeling... I don't know how to describe the feeling, but I get it sometimes after watching movies. It's, in a way, an uplifting feeling, a sense that all is right with the world. Now, this feeling from Avatar can be a result of several things (1) the spectacular, beautiful creation that is that land that they live in (2) the triumphant victory between of good over evil (3) the overall deep and peaceful connection the creatures have with their world and eachother.

I could go on, but I just realized that I'm extremely tired.... basically my point is how often I find myself wrapped up in another world, a world of ideals, filled with disappointment when those ideals never come true. Why not live in the present? Accept life's imperfections and love life more for it... Christ does that for us, He loves us despite our numerous failures. Why can't we have the same respect and love for the life He has given us? Why must we flood our heads with the false realities seen in movies? When did we let the ideal of someone else's life, someone else's story cloud our perceptions of our own life? These questions are generalized...but they are really directed at myself.