9th April, 1999The column that almost wasn't

Well, here we are..the third instalment into the mind of zen.

I was sitting here a moment ago thinking its about time I got around to writing another column, just to keep all you adoring fans at bay *lol*. But as I went to begin, I realised I have absolutly no idea what to write about. So here I am writing this column...about ...well..I don't know....I'm just typing *smiles*.

Theres probably a million things I could write about..but none of them really seem to say much. For example I recently just went and saw the movie Cruel Intentions, which in its self was an absolutly brilliant film, and also one I plan to see again about a million times. But I can't really talk about about it because I don't want to spoil it for those of you who plan to see it and are yet too *smiles*. All I can do is give you a recommendation which is to get off your butt and see it as soon as it's humanly possible trust me on this one *smiles*.

So moving on..

I could talk to you about the interesting time I spent traveling on a sail boat to Asia, but frankly..I just made that up. I've never even left my country, let alone travel to somone elses.

Though I must admit I do really want too. I've wanted to travel to America for as long as I can remember. "Why America?" I here you say. Well I'm sure it has something to do with my love of movies, actually I'm positive of that fact. I can honestly say that I want to go to New York and play "Heart and Soul" on that big keyboard in that toy store like Tom Hanks did in the movie Big. I want to go have Breakfast at Tiffany's. I want to go to Chicago and watch a baseball game at Wrigley Field and climb the Sears Tower like Mathew Broderick did in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. But hey this is coming from someone wishes her life was a movie, I mean you always have a happy ending that way.

I'm probably neglecting the fact that in movies to get to the happy ending the main characters always end up going through one heck of alot, like living through a tornado, fighting off Godzilla or a T-Rex, or get shot, or their brothers, sisters, mum, dad, cousins, friends, the next door neighbour..or all of them..get shot. So really..maybe real life isn't to bad, so in furture I think I might wish for a sitcom or something instead *grins*.

Admit it though, we all want to say once in our lives "Follow that car!!" and get into a high speed car chase, knocking over several flower and hot dog stands in the process *smiles*. Maybe your more of a horror movie fan and would prefer to be frighten out of your wits. But really, I like scary movies as much as the next person (if not more so) and I don't really like the idea of being chased around and stalked by some psycho fisherman, a doll thats come to life or an angry mother thats seeking revenge for her son's death who also happens to be going round stabing every single person you've associated with ever.

Oh well, so maybe I don't know what kind of movie I'd like to be in (though the odd romance wouldn't go astray *lol*)...but theres one thing I do know, movies may not be real life, but hey they sure make real life that little bit more interesting. Movies remind us that theres a little kid inside all of us, and that we should never forget that we have an imagination.

Well there you go, looks like I had something to write about after all *smiles*.

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