Below is a post I wrote eighteen months ago and never finished. I'm heartened by my progress on the list in the second paragraph. Of all the things that are hard - really hard - in life, it is worth remembering that most of us have an innate sense of goodness, and that if we can reduce the noise of everything that would distract us from it, its expression is a very simple thing.
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As much as I liked "Me and You and Everyone We Know," I had to admit that Miranda July's following movie, "The Future," was even better, mostly for being a more focused statement, less a collection of moments. Both were great, but something about how she placed the rescued cat, and the fracturing relationship, next to each other in the movie has stayed with me. The movie has a poetic vocabulary, an ability to express thoughts and feelings through surprising, disparate elements. The feeling of regret expressed in the movie, especially, has been with me since, IS any feeling of regret that I experience, one and the same.
Speaking of that, what regrets do I have recently? Only that I have not lived my own beliefs more fully, I think - generosity to the people I love, diligent attention on things I can change for the better, summary avoidance of things I cannot change, a focus on the value of time. But, I do not think of these things as regrets so much as opportunities.
When did I become such an optimist?
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