Till the end

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After school, I wrote something I titled, An Ordinary Life, which lamented the lack of adventure in my life.  I had it all, a happy family life, an adoring boyfriend, good friends, and good marks at school, not the best, but I was probably considered to be a well-balanced individual.  

Tonight, on the movie Hope Floats featuring recently acclaimed Best Actress Award-winner Sandra Bullock, she describes hers character as "ordinary".  She says to her daughter in one of the scenes that she used to think that she was special, and now she realises that she is simply ordinary, and that's okay.  

I think I realised my ordinariness a long time ago, only I have not yet known how to accept it or make it otherwise.  In this particular movie, Sandra Bullock's husband falls in love with another woman.  Sandra Bullock was crowned queen at the High School beauty pageant, and got the "popular" guy, thinking that she was better perhaps than other girls.  She might have been, then.  But when someone else came along, her husband Bill chose the other one.  He said, he had fallen in love.  He was sorry.  He couldn't help himself.  

It seems to me sometimes that no matter what you do, how much you love someone, no matter how well you keep your home, or how much attention you pay your partner, the glue that is meant to keep two people together, and in love forever, has lost its hold, and I want to know what can be done to make it sticky again so that people stick it out till the end of their lives.  Regardless of how ordinary they are.

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Anonymous said…
Never take for granted what you have , relationships don't just happen they are built . I
March 18, 2010 at 9:54 PM
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