I think I’m done. I don’t think I’ll ever buy another movie again. Ok. We all know that’s BS. But really. I wanted to kill someone this weekend when I was watching a movie. It’s called “Management.” It has Steve Zahn and Jennifer Aniston in it. The whole reason I bought it (besides that I got it for a dollar) was that I have this sad affection for those two not-so-great stars.
Here’s the plot: Guy has boring job working for parents at a hotel. Girl comes to stay for two nights. Guy likes girl. Guy touches her butt (with permission). Girl checks out but comes back a few minutes later and has sex in the laundry room with Guy. Long story short – Guy stalks Girl and Girl stalks Guy. Guy falls in love with girl and how she lives her life. Eventually Girl ends up back together with ex-boyfriend. Ex-Boyfriend gets Girl pregnant. Guy tells Girl she needs to learn to take care of herself rather than always helping people and being selfless. Ex-Boyfriend and Girl get married. Then divorced. Guy stalks Girl again. Guy and Girl end up together.
Point of the movie: Take care of yourself first. Then take care of others.
If you know me at all – you know that I don’t take care of myself. I don’t plan on ever starting to take care of myself. I don’t like to take care of myself. I love helping people. I help people all the time.
Helping people means not having to look at yourself. You don’t have to see what you need help with. And since you don’t know how/where you need help, you don’t have to ask for help. It’s actually quite an awesome setup.
This basically ruined my weekend. A flippin movie with two actors I actually enjoy watching. When I told my best friend I was watching movie and that I could barely finish it, he said, “Yeah… I’d probably turn it off, too. If I were watching myself on the screen.” And then a couple days later, he called me Jennifer. Rude.
All this said, I think I’m supposed to be learning something. I think I’m supposed to start “slowing down” and attempting to “take care” of myself and think about others second and take care of others a little less. We’ll see how that works out.
i think it is important to love others like you love yourself. Like God said to. So loving yourself is super important, cause then you can lover others. God wanted us to love ourselves.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't mean we do. I suck at loving myself. In fact I don't a lot.