Thinking Outside The Box

It is a nondescript box really. The size of a DVD case (wait, it is a DVD case). It is a plain case, but what strikes you the most when you look at it is "YELLOW". Seriously, that is the first thing I see and the first word that pops into my head: "YELLOW". The writing is very simple, but the simplicity of it speaks volumes. The next thing I notice are running people and a large VW bus. If you haven't guessed it already, it is the Little Miss Sunshine DVD. Chistmas isn't technically here yet, so I can't make a proper judgment, but so far it is my favorite gift (sorry).

I have found one of two things associated with people who watch this movie.

1. It is pretty good. Funny, glad I saw it, but I only needed the one time

OR

2. I watched it. Went out the next weekend and watched it again. Wanted to go see it again, but didn't because I was with people who had already seen it 4 times. Watched it at the $2.00 theatre before it finally left the big screen. Then ran out and bought it at midnight on Monday December 18th.

I'm more of the #2 variety. I saw it 3 times in the theatre paying more to watch it there than the DVD costs. I decided to wait and buy it after Christmas, because I knew I could count on the Best Buy gift card from my boss, or a friend knowing my addiction and totally willing to feed said addiction. I was correct.

I don't really know what it is about this movie. What captured me about it. I think it was probably Abigail Breslin (Olive) or Steve Carell . . . possibly Greg Kinnear. Whatever, it doesn't matter. This movie is all about every character dealing with disappointment, and how each of them dealt with it. How it is ok to get excited about things, and how much that excitement can effect people around you. And it is OK to want something really bad, but it is also OK to have it not happen. I think in the end that is what I struggle with the most in my life. I don't want because I don't want the disappointment. But in the end - I will move on out of that place of disappointment (if there is any), so it is OK to get excited about some things.

Muddled description of my feelings, but my feelings are always a little muddled.