Thursday, February 01, 2007 @9:26 AM
Lady in the [Nostalgic] Waterso, i've been feeling weird lately. ever since i saw lady in the water by m. night shyamalan. i couldn't quite put my finger on it until yesterday...
while at work, i went about my usual routine of fixing up my sections and then did some chatting with good ole' j.v. when suddenly a regular comes in with her little girl. most times that this woman comes in, she has one of her kids and they insist on candy :) while her mother listened to a cd on an lvs (listening/viewing station), her little girl came up to the counter with a box of candy and talked to j.v. j.v. being a father himself, talked to the little girl the way all dads talk to their young innocent ones. then her mother came up and was ready to go and placed her cd on the counter. while j.v. started to check them out, the little girl placed her candy AND a playstation 2 game on the counter as well. usually when the kids do this we ask the parents first and she said that she was buying it for her... she'd made the honor roll :) i proceeded to help j.v. and get the game from the place where we store them and gave it to him.
now, when the transaction was finishing up, the little girl then asked j.v. real excited, "is the game in there huh huh??" he opened it and showed her and she lit up...
the smile, the happYness, the jumping up and down, the cry of "YAAAY!"
then it hit me like a ton of bricks...
why do i feel so strange... long story short, i've been having the biggest case of nostalgia i've ever had. when i saw that, it reminded me of myself when things like that were purchased for me. and it reminded me of my dad, little did i know that i had joined the "club" with monica and j.v. as we have all lost our fathers.
so after this girl and her mother leave, i turn to j.v. and say, "do you remember when you used to do that?" and almost instantly we were on the same wavelink. nostalgia. i've never wanted to be 5 years old more. i'm almost 20. i feel like im thinking like a 50 year old. what happened? i've been to busy not paying attention to things and it bothers me.
that's what took over me that night i watched lady in the water. the whole message was that, man had forgotten how to listen. and watch. but, every so often, some one will. the significance will be nearly overwhelming...
so how do these things connect?
the lady in the water, is a child's book written by m. night for his children...
using his keen since of intellect, he is teaching his children, first hand, to always pay close attention to everything that happens around them...wow...
i guess you could say that it's things like that, that i live for. things that take me back. but then again it's also saddening. i can never be 5 again. i can never see my old kindergarten and elementary friends again. i can never see my dad again. i can never LIVE those moments again...
-hold on to what you live for. sooner or later, it will let go of you. but just because it let go, doesn't mean it won't come back for a visit every now and then...
