Have you ever noticed how so many things promise to change, enhance, repair, solve, etc your life? There's a pill to make you happy, a pill to make you thinner, there are spa's to help you relax and shelves full of books by people who have become obscenely rich telling us things that are total common sense at the end of the day.
There is one thing though that does seem to work - on a short term basis - when you're feeling as if it is all going to get on top of you. For the price of a movie ticket, you can allow yourself to escape all the drudgery of your life, escape the sadness, anger, stress, etc and for a little while, you can live a new life. A better life.
It seems funny to think that redemption can be purchased for the price of a ticket.
Of course, in all fairness, many of you will argue that there are other things that can have the same effect and I agree with you. No... not recreational drugs (although I'm sure that that works for some of you). The other things that can afford you a break from your own life include theatre, music, a good book, even a television programme. The trick is that it has to be something into which you can escape. A place where you feel safe or challenged or loved or scared. Whatever it is that you need when you're escaping from reality.
So... for the price of a ticket. Get out there and live a little fantasy why don't you :-)
Hugs,
Me
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