The other day I was watching Evan Almighty on TBS or some shit. While eating Dark Chocolate Raisinettes - my go to crack of choice. And on comes a scene where Morgan Freeman, who plays The Almighty, tells a woman who has asked him what to do, "You don't give a person who prays for courage, courage - you give them the opportunity to be courageous."
Action word. Verb.
And I had a light bulb moment...in the middle of a B movie, in my pjs. I always imagine my epiphanies occurring with me in a long flowing dress on a cliff's edge with the wind blowing my long dark tresses out behind me kinda way - you know Gone With The Wind meets - um...Ellen Degeneres pre- Portia De Rossi. Jacked up Ellen.
ANYWAY (sorry I do have a tendency towards the tangent) My epiphany was simply this: I am praying for the opportunity to make my ass smaller. Keep getting off your ass. You Go Girl.
And there you have it.
hahahahahahahaha pre-portia ellen. shit, that's rich, bets. i had a similar epiphany watching TV--my new hot lady cop addiction, In Plain Sight--and some dude is hemming and hawing about how he cant testify unless he's stoned. And she (Mary McCormack, goddess with a badge) says, "I know it's scary, and I know you want to be brave. We all want to be brave." She continued in some vein about how you have to give yourself the opportunity to be brave, etc. I thought, I'm scared to give up sugar and to some degree, I'm scared to get thin, but now it's time to be brave. Giving up sugar won't kill me, nor will releasing my old self-destructive tendencies. New life, 2010! Good things in store for us all!
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