My Weekend

I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Friday night. It was at least my third viewing of the film. There is much to say about this movie, especially the artistic creativity of Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry. But I've also been thinking about Joel Barish's (Jim Carrey) erasing his memory of Clementine (Kate Winslet). In doing so, he realizes how much he loves Clementine and that there were many wonderful things about their time together.

It is funny how often we may not like something, and we only wish that it would end or things would get better (the above picture is appropriate), but when we search our memories of what actually happened, we realize things aren't as bad as we thought. Sometimes we learn from what happened; others we are simply the better for it. Joel learns this about Clementine.

Sometimes I think about my own difficulties and see that things aren't as bad as I had thought. I'm here because of what I've been through, and that's not a bad thing. Like Joel realizes, sometimes it's good to accept things as they are - it's better than wishing they weren't.

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Gas prices are high. I read they may be $4.00 in a year. How high will they get?