Not Like the Movies

I want to take a second to talk about movies. Pretty common topic right? I don't mean what specific movies I like or types of movies or anything. I want to talk about what movies do for me; the effect they have on me. I might be a little self-righteous for a bit but bear with me.

I spend so much of my time worrying and stressing about all the bad things in my life and don't get me wrong, it's something I need to do, but every time I watch a movie, it's like for five seconds I can just forget about all that negativity and bask in the positive influences of some really good film.

Now I'm a romantic comedy kind of girl. I mean, what girl isn't? And yes, I want my life to be like a movie. We all do. And every time I watch some really good movie it just makes me happy because the possibility is out there. And that's the thing- maybe it's not.

I may not have a true love or a longtime best friend or a spontaneous adventure. But that doesn't matter. Movies simply allow those things to exist as an idea. And so what if right now I don't have them? As long as those things exist in theory, it stands to reason that they have the potential to exist in reality.

I may still have no idea what to do with my life, but Sandra Bullock showed me that it's possible to be both Miss America and a Special Agent. And I may have yet to have a boyfriend, but Jennifer Garner showed me that some people don't find the one until they're 30. Yes those are movies, and I'm not so delusional that I believe they are the most realistic reality.

But so what? I'm not the only one who has seen these movies, and surely I am not the only one who takes them to heart. So doesn't it stand to reason that all of us can believe in these 'theories'?

I mean, Peter Pan taught us that fairies will be real so long as we believe in them. Can't it be the same for movies?
At least the rom-com's anyway.

Small Town USA

I've been wanting to rant about this topic for a long time. A month or so ago I came across a facebook page all about hating the city and the town that I live in.

For those of you who live in small, rural towns, you know what it's like. We have a lot of hicks, a lot of drug use, and lot of people who don't have a lot of money and don't show much respect for themselves. And yeah, a lot of people hate this aspect of our town...so why use the internet to publicize it?

This facebook page is a bunch of different memes that make fun of the people in my town and county and I hate it. Yes we have lots of problems, but doesn't every small town? Why stereotype the entire city but one group of people.

And you know what? I love where I live. We have lots of popular festivals, holiday parades, art shows, and even Gusmacker. All these events bring our town together...rich and poor, old and young, druggies and high class. My town is fun and friendly and pretty and I think that it is ridiculous that so many people are behind this facebook page.

Someone even wrote an article about it in the town paper about how upset it made them and what happened? The people on the page loved it. They put pictures of the article online and made fun of our newspaper for publishing it and continue to ridicule the county that I live in.

If you don't like it here then fine, move. Don't spend your time ridiculing where you live on the internet. If it upsets you that much, then try and change it. But don't make public all the negative aspects of a great town when there are so many positive ones.

I love my city, good and bad.