So if I'm going to be completely honest with you all, I have been in a kind of depressional rut for a while now....but I have officially found the cure. You ready for this shit???????????????????
Popcorn.
Coca-Cola.
(I was going to just put "Coke" but I didn't want you guys to get the wrong impression)
1 fuzzy blankey.
Queen Latifah.
I sat down on my couch last night feeling horrible and not wanting to do a god damned thing. I was questioning if I was smart enough to be in college, or if I really wanted to be an English teacher? Was I wasting my life on something I would eventually hate doing...? And then I turned on Netflix, and it told me "Hey Kenzie, you should watch Last Holiday!" ...Well my Netflix didn't actually talk to me, it just had it on the "Top Ten for Kenzie" list. But still. I clicked on the movie and sat down with everything listed above....and my outlook changed in a matter of one hour and 27 minutes later.
In the movie, Queen Latifah is a woman who is told that she only has three more weeks to live, so she quits her job and basically says fuck it to everything. Everything but her dreams. She takes all her money out of the bank and goes to her dream city, staying in her dream hotel, skiing, cooking with professional chefs...the movie is just so uplifting. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's horridly cliché but I fell in love!
Life really is about perspective. You can wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and smirk at yourself and whisper "Damn right girl, you fiiine!" Or you can choose to wake up and dread every face that you see that day....You only get one chance in this world. LIVE IT.
And I'm NOT saying you should get up and take all the money of your accounts and travel the world and hope everything goes your way, and you will end up happy and fall in love with a hot black man. No. Absolutely not. what I'm saying is that...whenever you feel like a pile of shit...just remember that you really do only have one life to live, and it's up to you on how you live it.
So fellow teenage or middle aged women, every time you are feeling down, pop in this movie and let it soak in. Because I guarantee you will leave your house with a little pep in your step!
That's all for now,
Kenzie Nagel
