It's going to be a place where only the things you want to happen, would happen.

 

Like all urban hipsters, I flocked to see "Where The Wild Things Are" this weekend - which is funny because I am neither urban nor a hipster but I was dying to see this film.  To say I loved it is an understatement -- it was truly, truly beautiful.  I have read a lot of people who were disappointed that it didn't "stick to the book" - ummm....the book was 10 sentences.  How, pray tell, could you create a 94 minute film and stick solely to 10 sentences.  What Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers certainly did though was capture the magic and the love of the book in a visually stunning film.

But I'm not here to write a film review -- this movie has had me thinking all weekend about how our power can come from that which we believe about ourselves.  Max convinced the wild things that he was king and he could make them happy because he believed that he could.  And for a while, he did.  Not because he had any magic powers and not because he was truly a king but because he believed that he could.  I think we  walk around the world thinking that everyone believes that which we believe about ourselves.  And if those beliefs are that we are less than perfect, the world sees us that way.  What if that isn't so?  What if how the world sees you is entirely different from how you see yourself?  And what if what everyone else sees is more the truth than what you see?  How can that change how you function in the world?

Comments

[debra]

i believe understanding that what you believe about yourself, how you see yourself, isn't the same as how the outside world sees you is the first step ... but really, only you can change your self-perception. it's more, to me, a matter of letting go of your internal criticisms and judgments and accepting the more objective view of the outside world...

[Sarah]

I echo Debs and this is something that I fight with every.single.day. It is extremely difficult to let go of my own criticisms and judgments on myself. I am sooo hard on myself and seem to expect things that no one else would ever expect of me. Its amazing what we are willing to subject ourselves to when we are so kind to our friends.