do you know what the secret of life is?
The image above was taken from our television set this afternoon, as we watched City Slickers. I love this movie.
My favourite part is when Curly tells Mitch that the secret of life is "one thing" -- the trick is to figure out what that one thing is for you.
Even though I suspect Curly's right, I'm not sure I've figured out what the secret of life is. I mean, I know that Marcus and Alex are the most important people in my life, and they take priority over everything ... but is that the "secret of life"? Or is there something more?
On that note, I'm off to make oatmeal raisin cookies with Alex. In the meantime, tell me: what's your secret of life?
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I don't know if I know my "one thing." I do know that baking is near and very dear to my heart and I love me a good oatmeal-raisin cookie!!
Posted by: Anali | Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 04:34 PM
faith. even my faltering hold on it.
Posted by: Kyran, Notes to Self | Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 05:15 PM
Figuring out how to enjoy the now, while the now is here.
Posted by: Pass the Torch | Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 09:29 PM
Funnily enough, at the beginning of the new year, we're starting a new series on our blog which contains movies that I've never seen that Josh thinks I'm a mutant for never seeing. This is one of them.
Oh, that rock I lived under sure was comfy. :)
Posted by: Jenna | Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 10:08 PM
being a curmudgeonly sort...to not confuse looking happy with being happy.
I deal with a lot of people who tell me that if I just wasn't so "negative" all the time, I'd be happy.
"But I am happy"
"You can't be, you don't act happy"
what's up with that? Looking happy now counts more than being happy?
Posted by: John C. Welch | Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 11:06 PM
Finding forgiveness.
Posted by: trini fan | Sunday, November 26, 2006 at 12:07 AM
My secret of life is to stop looking for a secret to life and to live my life, instead. I spent most of my early adulthood believing in a divine plan/purpose, and now that reality has smacked me over the head with an anvil, I am spending years unraveling my mind from the misconceptions I've lived under for years. Those were years I could have just spend living, and they were wasted. Never. Again.
Posted by: W. Lotus | Sunday, November 26, 2006 at 11:25 AM
My favorite line is when one of the slickers asks Curly, "Hey Curly, you killed anybody today?" And Curly fixes him with a curmudgeonly stare and intones, "Day ain't over yet."
Posted by: Lisa C. | Sunday, November 26, 2006 at 06:44 PM
Hope. That's my one thing. It makes good times gooder and bad times bearable and promises that things can change. Yum Cookies!!
Posted by: Funchilde | Sunday, November 26, 2006 at 09:09 PM