Running With Scissors

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change" Dr. Wayne W Dyer.

That is a quote I came across recently and saved it as I wanted to use it on my blog and was waiting for the right time. The right time came tonight and on so many different levels.

I saw Running With Scissors with a long term friend (I dare not use the word old), but we did grow up in Grand Valley together and are lifes have always been woven together in the most interesting ways. I loved the book. I want to make that clear. I found it funny, from my perspective, as I read it. The characters were all from Augustine Bourroughs prespective. I loved, loved, loved the movie. Annette Benning is amazing. She brings a prespective and life to the character of the mother that was missing in the book. Jill Clayborgh is also outstanding as the Doctor's wife, and added a dimension to the character that isn't there in the book. It is rare for me to have liked a movie better then the book. This is an exception and as I said I loved the book. Put this on your must see movie of the 2006. The way that I look at his childhood and his experiences has changed as a result of looking at the characters differently.

Personally tonight I haven't laugh so hard in a long time. And that was before the movie started. One of the things about having a friend that shared the same small town high school experience together and shared a huge part of our twenties together and then hit the party scene together in or thirties, you do have a lot of shared pasts. And ad came on for the Trailor Park Boys.....not that dissimiliar to our beginnings. And Shaun leaned over and whispered "See it could have been worse". I can't begin to tell you how funny that became and how hard I laughed. I would like to say we, but how can I make the same statement for everyone, so I will simply say I have been so hard on myself and really it could have turned out a lot worse. It really made me laugh at life and changed the way I look at things. My new motto is going to be "It could have been a lot worse". I find that simple and funny. And after all why take life so seriously.

Happy Thursday