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My Movie Review: Love Of Your Life

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I watched Love of My Life on Prime Video last night. I thought the movie was good, and the acting was good, too. However, later in the movie, something happened that made me angry.

What bothered me most was the character’s decision to leave and end relationships without telling anyone. I believe that when you are married or have a longtime friendship that goes all the way back to childhood, you owe people some sort of explanation. You don’t necessarily have to stay in a relationship, but I think the people who have shared so much of your life deserve an explanation.

As I thought about why this bothered me so much, I realized it brought up some personal feelings about relationships in my own life.

I had a childhood friendship that eventually ended, and I had questions about how that friendship ended. I felt those questions could have been answered. I still miss that person, and the way our friendship ended makes me sad. However, I don’t think I want the friendship back because I’m not the same person I was back then.

I think I was changing toward the end of our friendship, and the other person may have felt that change. When I look back at my childhood friendships, I realize I was always agreeable and worked hard to maintain them. I wasn’t as comfortable speaking up for myself.

Over time, I began to change. I started saying what I honestly thought, while still trying to be kind.

Today, I don’t feel the need to work so hard to make a friendship happen. It isn’t as important to me as it used to be to try so hard to make a friend.

I can still feel sad about losing a friendship and miss the way things were back then. But I have also realized that just because I’m sad that the relationship is over doesn’t mean I need to go back.

Watching Love of My Life helped me discover these feelings. What started as anger toward a character turned into a reflection on my own life, my friendships, and how much I have changed.

Sometimes a movie can be good, the acting can be good, and yet a character’s choices can bring up feelings we didn’t even realize were still there.

If you decide to watch Love Of My Life let me know if you liked it or not?

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My Movie Review: Coherence

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I recently watched Coherence on Netflix. The movie was interesting kept my focus but was hard to follow. I had to pause the movie a few times because I was trying to make sense of what was going on. It was one of those movies that makes you stop and think because you’re trying to figure out what is actually happening.

I know this might sound funny or strange to some people, but I started thinking about my food choices and how they might affect the way my life turns out over the next few years.

One of the problems I deal with is my eating habits. I constantly crave things like fried chicken, greasy chili, and Coke. I enjoy the taste, and sometimes there is a comfort that comes with eating these foods. Other times, I’m physically hungry, and sometimes it’s just a craving.

While watching this movie, I started thinking about whether making different choices could change how I feel and what my life might look like in the future.

What if, instead of always choosing fried chicken, I chose grilled chicken? What if I made a healthier chili and chose flavored water instead of Coke more often?

I started thinking about how I want to feel on the inside and out. I want to have more energy, feel better, and fit into my clothes more comfortably.

As I was thinking about all of this, I decided I was going to make a healthier chili using lean ground beef, tomato paste, a seasoning packet, onions, low fat cottage cheese, northern beans, black beans and green and yellow peppers.

It’s funny that a movie that had me pausing to figure out what was happening ended up making me think about something as ordinary as what I was going to eat.

I believe you can change your own reality even if it’s just a random decision, each decision matters.

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My Movie Reviews: New in Town

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Have you ever watched a movie that left you thinking about your own life? That’s what New in Town did for me.

One of the messages I took away from this movie is that the life we think we want isn’t always the life we need. Sometimes we get so caught up in our plans and expectations that we don’t realize what we’re missing until life takes us in another direction.

I can relate to this in my own life. I thought I wanted to work in a big, fast-paced hospital, but someone told me about a little home in the same town that I had never heard of. I ended up spending 23 years of my life there. Looking back, I believe it was good for my soul, and I grew a lot spiritually.

Sometimes the unexpected turns in life can bring us things we never knew we needed. We may have our own ideas about how our lives should turn out, but that doesn’t mean those plans are always what’s best for us.

Maybe we don’t always need to have everything figured out. Maybe we just need to be open to the possibility that life has something different waiting for us.

I would recommend New in Town to anyone who enjoys a heartwarming movie with humor, new friendships, and a reminder that sometimes the direction we never planned to take can lead us to things we didn’t even know we needed.

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Maybe There Are Just Rules to Life

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Do you believe in karma?

I’ve been thinking about this one and I’m not sure I believe in karma the way some people do. I don’t believe that people are necessarily punished for the things they do. I think there are rules to life, and sometimes you just have to follow them.

For example, if you are driving and you are texting, talking, reading, or even putting on makeup, you are taking your attention away from driving. If something happens, I don’t necessarily see that as being punished. There are just certain rules to driving, and one of those rules is that you need to pay attention to the road.

Another example is something as simple as dusting your furniture. If you don’t dust a piece of furniture, it is not going to become clean. It’s going to get dusty. That’s just how it works.

I think life can be like that too. Sometimes our choices have consequences, not because someone or something is punishing us, but because that is simply what happens when we make certain choices.

I also keep thinking about the movie Set It Off. Sometimes people can be really good at breaking the rules and getting away with it. They can start become arrogant because they think they have figured out how to get away with things.

But eventually, you can put your hands into too many cookie jars. You get so busy trying to keep up with everything you are doing that you mess up. You forget something, make a mistake, and get caught.

So maybe I don’t believe in karma as much as I believe that there are rules to life. You can choose to follow them or not, but you don’t always get to choose the consequences.

Sometimes it’s not karma.

Sometimes it’s just breaking the rules.