May 06, 2005

Eternal Sunshine

I just watched Garden State [and drank 1/3 of a bottle of Kahlua].

It's interesting that, at the end of a week during which I've decided I need to be medicated, I watched this movie. To over-simplify, it's about a guy who goes off his meds for the first time in 17 years and realizes how numb to life he's been. He realizes how much more he'd rather feel anything - even pain - than feel numb. That numb robs you of yourself. That the idealistic persuit of "happiness"... just results in numb.

Pain reminds you that you're alive.

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