Day 33

This doesn't have much to do with anything, but I will say that I think it's adorable and that if I had the time,  I'd teach myself how to make my own.....via

  

In honor of ground-hog day, I curled up with some goldfish crackers and watched, well, Groundhog Day. It was my first time, believe it or not.

I know, I'm as shocked as you are. For some who has actually spent entire summer vacations catching up on pop culture with VH1's I love the 90's, it has always seemed strange to me that I had never caught the Bill Murray classic. Yet, despite the anomaly, I had seen enough groundhog day types in other hack productions, I figured that what once had been a clever breakthrough in plot would now seem formulaic and overdone.

False.

Instead of spending and hour and forty minutes trying to figure out how to break the repetition of days, the entertainment came from how Phil (once he accepted his new fate) used the time to expand himself. By the time it was over, he could play the piano, sculpt ice, and he knew everything about everybody in town. He worked hard to save the life of the homeless man, and was always on time to catch the kid who falls out of the tree.

So while it's true that he lived the same day over and over, in reality he lived a new day against the same background. He had the chance to learn form his mistakes and worked to fix them.

The story was not how to escape the day, but how to embrace it, learn and grow from it.

Sometimes all I ever want is for a day to just be over. I beg silently with the universe to cause the Earth to turn a little faster and make tomorrow come a little sooner. But this film got me to thinking, "What if?"

What if today lasted forever, how would I spend it?

What would I choose to improve on?

What would I learn about myself and my fellows if I had all the time in the world?

What would you do?