Ok well right, this post may be slightly different for my amazing 34 followers, but I hope that someone, somewhere will enjoy it and kind of half relate. So as most of you know, I’m fifteen and I live in the UK. My life is pretty average, actually no, luckier than average, but I’ll talk a little more about myself in a later post if y’all want.
Anyway, my parents are in the process of divorcing, which, if any of you have experience with, is honestly the most horrific thing I’ve ever had to go through in ma life.
But that’s not what I actually want to talk about in this post. I surprisingly want to talk about two things, a movie and a book. Today, I went to see passengers, the one with J-LAW and Chris Pratt. It was HELLA good, I mean good acting, good plot, good filming, it was all just really great. Now, I don’t want to spoil the movie for those of you who haven’t seen it yet, but the underlying message of the entire movie was just really beautiful. It was all about mortality and making the most of the people you have around you, even if you have barely anyone. So, I am going to try and take the message from that movie and apply it to my everyday life, because there are many people in my life whom I don’t get on with, but I am aware that despite this, I need to really appreciate them.
Secondly, there is a book, which I have legit just started, but I can already tell that it if going to change my life. However, the preface to this book was enough to captivate me so entirely, that I have taken a life lesson from the first to pages. It’s about this elderly man reading through his now grown up son’s journal, whilst comparing it to his, and this extract focuses on one particular date, July 4th. On this date, the man writes, ‘wasted a whole day fishing with Jimmy-caught nothing!’, However, Jimmy, his son writes ‘went fishing with dad today-the best day of my life!’.
I honestly cannot tell you how much that affected me, and maybe it didn’t affect you as much as it has me, but I just wanted to share it and maybe provoke the same emotions that it did me. So all I want to do is leave you with this- Life is finite, Love it, Love the people in it, and most importantly-live it.