Lowpoint Lowpoint!

Okay The Holiday, such a great movie! It's right up there with The Family Stone, and Elizabethtown. I think it's because when each movie starts out, the main characters are in a lowpoint of their lives. So on the one hand it makes you realize that your not the only depressed person out there with crap raining on your life. AN on the other, by the end of the movie the main character usually finds his/her way out out of the rain and into some kind of working solution, or they at least find the "Silver Lining". So when ever my life hits a lowpoint, i just turn one of these babies on and it works like a charm. At least until i start to think about everything once again, but it's a nice escape anyway.

This quote from The Holiday is one that i love. Why? Because i completely agree and can relate to it all too well.

Iris: I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting." What an extraordinary thought. Personally, I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I am more than willing to believe Shakespeare had. I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said "love is blind". Now that is something I know to be true. For some quite inexplicably, love fades; for others love is simply lost. But then of course love can also be found, even if just for the night. And then, there's another kind of love: the cruelest kind. The one that almost kills its victims. Its called unrequited love. Of that I am an expert. Most love stories are about people who fall in love with each other. But what about the rest of us? What about our stories, those of us who fall in love alone? We are the victims of the one sided affair. We are the cursed of the loved ones. We are the unloved ones, the walking wounded. The handicapped without the advantage of a great parking space! Yes, you are looking at one such individual. And I have willingly loved that man for over three miserable years! The absolute worst years of my life! The worst Christmas', the worst Birthday's, New Years Eve's brought in by tears and valium. These years that I have been in love have been the darkest days of my life. All because I've been cursed by being in love with a man who does not and will not love me back. Oh god, just the sight of him! Heart pounding! Throat thickening! Absolutely can't swallow! All the usual symptoms.