Comments on: It all comes down to Cinderella http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/ Training for my next race, making chocolate, and trying not to mix the two too much. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:31:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Heather http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24568 Heather Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:40:57 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24568 Funny how some movies make us think. I guess that is the sign of a good movie. My son and I watched SAW and SAW II together, we have yet to watch the III. It is a horrible grusome movie, BUT, I asked my son if it made him think about how he lived his life and if he appreciated it. It made me think that I should live that way,, so I wont be a target of a madman. ( The story line is a killer kills people HE thinks do not live or appreciate their life and what they have in it.. Kind of like SEVEN ) I found your post interesting. Heather Funny how some movies make us think. I guess that is the sign of a good movie. My son and I watched SAW and SAW II together, we have yet to watch the III. It is a horrible grusome movie, BUT, I asked my son if it made him think about how he lived his life and if he appreciated it. It made me think that I should live that way,, so I wont be a target of a madman. ( The story line is a killer kills people HE thinks do not live or appreciate their life and what they have in it.. Kind of like SEVEN ) I found your post interesting.
Heather

]]> By: Barbara http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24563 Barbara Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:42:10 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24563 Wish I'd seen this the day it was posted, but here it is anyway: This post reminds me of my brother's wry commentary: Life is a swirling, sucking eddy of despair in an ever darkening universe. I'm sure that's not original, but I don't know where he got it. As the eternal optimist, I do feel it my obligation to bring a little bucket of hope...yeah, life is a swirling eddy of despair and maybe you won't win the lottery and if you have a job you hate or live somewhere that sucks or something really bad happens like cancer or a child dying or losing an arm or a marriage you loved, then it can be hard to get to the other side. But people do. Get through. Figure out how to believe again. They save themselves, or a fellow lends a hand to pull them out of the muck, or yeah, sometimes, magic happens. Maybe no ghostly baseball players come from the fields to play the last game, but there are other magical stories: the woman who loses 135 lbs and runs a marathon the guy who quits the job he hates, writes a novel, and sells it the devastated divorced mother who falls in love again the retired guy who buys a bike and rides it all over France the 83 year old woman who hikes to the top of a mountain by herself--and dies there. How cool is that? I guess I'm saying that nothing is ever accomplished by despair, only by dreams. And that's why we love those stories. They remind us to have courage, to dream, to be mighty and not worry about looking like a fool, and fling ourselves into life with every molecule we've got, because it doesn't last forever, baby, and that's the real truth. Wish I’d seen this the day it was posted, but here it is anyway:

This post reminds me of my brother’s wry commentary: Life is a swirling, sucking eddy of despair in an ever darkening universe. I’m sure that’s not original, but I don’t know where he got it.

As the eternal optimist, I do feel it my obligation to bring a little bucket of hope…yeah, life is a swirling eddy of despair and maybe you won’t win the lottery and if you have a job you hate or live somewhere that sucks or something really bad happens like cancer or a child dying or losing an arm or a marriage you loved, then it can be hard to get to the other side.

But people do. Get through. Figure out how to believe again. They save themselves, or a fellow lends a hand to pull them out of the muck, or yeah, sometimes, magic happens. Maybe no ghostly baseball players come from the fields to play the last game, but there are other magical stories:

the woman who loses 135 lbs and runs a marathon
the guy who quits the job he hates, writes a novel, and sells it
the devastated divorced mother who falls in love again
the retired guy who buys a bike and rides it all over France
the 83 year old woman who hikes to the top of a mountain by herself–and dies there. How cool is that?

I guess I’m saying that nothing is ever accomplished by despair, only by dreams. And that’s why we love those stories. They remind us to have courage, to dream, to be mighty and not worry about looking like a fool, and fling ourselves into life with every molecule we’ve got, because it doesn’t last forever, baby, and that’s the real truth.

]]> By: david http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24528 david Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:24:12 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24528 I think I came into the wrong blog today. Jon used to be here. I think I came into the wrong blog today. Jon used to be here.

]]> By: brit http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24512 brit Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:18:43 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24512 umm...I think I need a drink now. umm…I think I need a drink now.

]]> By: kb http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24503 kb Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:12:36 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24503 A)what the teachers told you prior to cloitalism b) left wrong url. A)what the teachers told you prior to cloitalism
b) left wrong url.

]]> By: kb http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24502 kb Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:09:26 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24502 Sometimes (often) I think that life is really special, that special, life-changing things happen to us all of the time, and we just don't want to take them for what they are. And I think its partly true, but what is fully true is that I am not a middle-aged blonde suburban woman with a tendency to meddle in pseudointellectual meanderings of eastern origins. And really, its just crap, life is unfair and in contrast to what all the teachers you had prior to your first cloital moment, everyone is, just a little, unspecial. And life is unspecial, and unfair. I'd like to just stop caring. Not in a suicidal way. In a completely neutral, unobsessive kind of way. To just be like, nothingness. Sometimes (often) I think that life is really special, that special, life-changing things happen to us all of the time, and we just don’t want to take them for what they are. And I think its partly true, but what is fully true is that I am not a middle-aged blonde suburban woman with a tendency to meddle in pseudointellectual meanderings of eastern origins. And really, its just crap, life is unfair and in contrast to what all the teachers you had prior to your first cloital moment, everyone is, just a little, unspecial. And life is unspecial, and unfair. I’d like to just stop caring. Not in a suicidal way. In a completely neutral, unobsessive kind of way. To just be like, nothingness.

]]> By: mary http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24486 mary Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:50:38 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24486 I always get pissed off when I don't when the lottery. How messed up is that? At least that only happens once a year and not weekly. Everyone needs some fantasy once in awhile. AS long as we keep it fantasy and realize it's just not going to happen I always get pissed off when I don’t when the lottery. How messed up is that? At least that only happens once a year and not weekly.

Everyone needs some fantasy once in awhile. AS long as we keep it fantasy and realize it’s just not going to happen

]]> By: jeanne http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24475 jeanne Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:56:53 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24475 sometimes, i honestly don't know how i get thru the day. Denial is helpful. Repeating "this isn't happening" over and over. And reading Jon. :) sometimes, i honestly don’t know how i get thru the day. Denial is helpful. Repeating “this isn’t happening” over and over. And reading Jon.
:)

]]> By: Vanilla http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24472 Vanilla Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:57:15 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24472 Hmmm. Your post has a very dark and macabre feeling to it today. I agree with it wholeheartedly, and find myself in a similar mood today. We live vicariously through the stories of the few lottery winners and somehow hold out hope that it can happen to us. Hmmm. Your post has a very dark and macabre feeling to it today. I agree with it wholeheartedly, and find myself in a similar mood today.

We live vicariously through the stories of the few lottery winners and somehow hold out hope that it can happen to us.

]]> By: 21stCenturyMom http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24467 21stCenturyMom Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:56:24 +0000 http://completerunning.com/chocolate-runners-blog/2007/12/02/it-all-comes-down-to-cinderella/#comment-24467 I had one of those "just when you can't take any more" moments last night. Shit happens and you are right. I have to clean up the shit and keep moving forward. That's mostly how life works. That having been said - we need our fairy tales to give us hope sometimes. Miracles do happen and luck favors the prepared. Carry on. I had one of those “just when you can’t take any more” moments last night. Shit happens and you are right. I have to clean up the shit and keep moving forward. That’s mostly how life works.

That having been said - we need our fairy tales to give us hope sometimes. Miracles do happen and luck favors the prepared.

Carry on.

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