It's been a long time since a tv show (well, except for "The Big Give" which doesn't count) made me cry. Probably partially due to the fact that I don't watch much tv...and what I DO watch, I watch online, since I don't have cable.
So, I watch October Road. Faithfully. And I've become emotionally attached to the small-town atmosphere, the characters, the relationships...I want to go find that town and buy a house next door to Eddie and Phil and Nick and Pizza Girl. :-) Actually, I want to BE Pizza Girl, complete with pink and yellow and green and purple stripes in my hair--she called herself an "oddling" on one episode and I knew we were soul-sisters. ;-)
Tonight's episode was a little different--quite a bit of male/female relationship misunderstanding/conflict, interspersed with flashbacks to the boys at 10 years old, all of them in love with a girl who moved away...and was forgotten for 18 years until they learned she had just been killed in a car wreck.
Maybe it's partly because 2 horrible accidents here have left 3 people dead in the past week...and I have a heightened sense of the importance of making every moment count with the ones you love. Maybe it's partly because it's so refreshing to watch a show where the guys are portrayed, at least sometimes, as stopping to consider their actions AND share their thoughts/fears with the women they love. Whatever the reason, the final scenes of all the men leaving the funeral and going back to the women they love and making things right brought on the tears. I mean, I actually sat here and cried.
And it's not just about the tv show, of course. It's all tied in with community and relationship and love and respect and being transparent with one another, even when you're afraid. Another encouragement that I'm on the right track. Another challenge to keep running that race.
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Some guys get there in the end. I now talk to my wife a lot and share my thoughts feelings and hopes with her. It only took 17 years, but it happened, eventually. Trust me it did not start out that way.
aren't emotions great? i LOVE a good cry over shows like that. first because of the scene, but moreover at seeing something i believe actually being lived out on the television. it happens so RARELY, you know...
you haven't blogged in a while...something keeping you busy? ;)
this is WAY off topic, but i was curious... do you have any info about an update on our good friend from the illustrious whizzle dizzle? we had good conversation back in the day, and i know you 2 were connected somehow, so i thought you may know what the old bastard is up to these days...
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