Movies Reflect Life...Sometimes, eh?

Well. This is my venture into blogging.  It will be a pondering through and about the things I have learned in my journey.  Not even sure with whom I will share it's existence, but since I do want feed back I will send the address to a few close folks.  So, here goes my first ponderings:

Just finished watching "Dakota Skye" (which I cannot recommend to young ones because of the sex and the drugs) which is about a 17 year old who can see the truth behind every single lie anyone tells her.  Personally, I do not think I would survive this "power" intact.  She chooses to become apathetic and just go with the flow.  However, several lines really caught my attention.

“Sitting between your past and your future, doesn’t mean you’re in the present.”  ponderings by Dakota Skye

So deep and yet... what?  Interestingly enough that make good sense to me.  If I focus on the past neither my present or future take me where I want/need to go.  Same with the sole focus on the future.  Sitting, obviously, will not get me where I want to go either.  Seems to be a really good quote for a discussion.  Anybody up for it?

“Knowing your problem doesn’t solve it.”   Dakota Skye

Amen sister!!!  I know exactly what my problem(s) are.  It's the steps to fixing them that are in the way!! lol...somtimes though it is more of a col (crying out loud--in mortal anguish).

“I’m lost. In your eyes, I see the way for me.”  song from Dakota Skye.  

This was from the song playing over the credits at the end.  Isn't this what we all search for?  Someone to really "see" us.  To love us as we are and yet to grow with us through all the speeds that that entails?  Some growth is snail slow and some quicker.  I mean I know exactly what I need to do for "this" problem and yet I do not wanna!  I think this is because problems are multi-layered.  Each layer with it's own life challenges.

To top it all off...the "cute" "wholesome" looking guy in the movie turns out to be some really really weird looking dude in real life.  I 'd never heard of him and went to see what else he has done.  Didn't even recognize him. What a bummer.  Brought home to me, again, that what is presented to the public is so, so, so far from who we really are.  For many reasons.  I have tried my whole professional life to be who I really am and for the most part have succeeded. But there are always those parts that we hold back because we want to be accepted in the group we are with at the time.  

I do not drink or do drugs or follow the "Baptist" way.  This "stigma" has left me outside many groups who, while they profess to be my friends, do not choose to socialize with me.  Painful for a people person who is forced to be a loner.  Guess I am similar to Dakota in that I have problems with people not being real and who are so concerned with escaping reality that they cast off their current present (and me)  as well.