Hi everyone, happy Friday to you all. I thought I would share my thought of the day with you. For anyone who knows me personally youll know that i love, love, love romantic movies and chic flicks :). But i dont just watch them for the entertainment; I also look out for the message behind the movie. Take for instance the fun and quirky 1999 romantic comedy film “Runaway Bride starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. To me the take home message in this movie is “Know thyself and to Thine self be true”. Let me give a run down for those who haven’t seen the movie. So, Julia Roberts plays the role of a woman who has been engaged 3 times to 3 different men. She says yes to the proposal, goes through the motion of planning the wedding but when it comes time to walking down the aisle to the groom she makes it halfway if not a quarter of the way down the aisle, then turns around and runs away ( hence the name runaway bride). She however gets engaged again to marry a fourth man. Richard Gere who is a struggling investigative reporter goes to her home town to write a story about her and to answer the one question on everyone’s lips… will she make it down the aisle?. Now, during his investigations of her life story he makes a very insightful and profound observation- She doesn’t know the type of eggs she likes. With the first man it was poached, with the other it was scrambled and yet another it was eggs benedict and with her current beau its egg whites only. As they do in Hollywood movies, Richard Gere falls in love with Julia and pleads with her not to marry her current beau. She says she loves her man and will marry him. Richard out frustration asks her a very important and life changing question “do you even know what eggs you like”….. Long story short she doesn’t marry the current beau but gets engaged to Richard instead. He is sure that they share real love but on their wedding day she runs away yet again. She goes off for months and in the movie they show her trying all these different types of eggs and exploring other ventures. Finally, she returns to Richard and explains to him … she could not marry the other men because they did not know who she was. They fell in love with her because she was what they wanted her to be. She couldn’t marry Richard because he knew who she was but she didn’t know herself and both of these reasons scared her. So, here the eggs are a metaphor for knowing who we are as individuals and not what we think others want us to be. Truly knowing who we are or who you want to be is essential because this affects the decisions and the choices that we make …..who we allow into our lives and who we don’t, who we marry or don’t marry, what job we get into and what job we don’t get into , what we eat and what we don’t eat…. These decisions ultimately affect the over quality of our lives. It’s only in Knowing who we are as individuals that we can live fulfilling and authentic lives. The Journey of self-knowing is often complex and tedious job but certainly worth the undertaking. In the case of marriage it prevents divorce. For our careers it gives us courage to follow our passions… so on and so forth. Julia, in this movie after soul searching found out that she loves eggs benedict. She also found that she hates big weddings . Yes.. they do get married but in a small intimate wedding somewhere out in the open fields. So let me ask you a question, are the decisions and choices being made for your special day coming from a place of self-knowledge or otherwise? What will knowing who you are do for you? what changes will happen by finding out who you are or who you want to become. Know thy self and to thine self be true. Stay blessed and be exclusively you.
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:06:03 +0000
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