I’ve been watching reruns of movies now and I’m currently obsessed with The Tourist
starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. First of all I absolutely love Johnny
Depp!!! Any movie that features him in the cast is a must watch! I’ve been
watching Pirates of the Caribbean until I learnt the words!
Back to The Tourist.
Angelina Jolie is absolutely fabulous. I love how she carries herself and just ooze
class. She’s dressed impeccably and her make-up is subtle but well done. I’m
not a die-hard Angelina Jolie fan but I just loved her in The Tourist. And it got me thinking, imagine if we women carried
ourselves with that much confidence and class, if every time we walked on the
street men as well as women would admire us not only because of our beauty (because
we are all beautiful) but also because of the charm and respect we command. I
think because I tend to watch movies more than once I inevitably end up
thinking about what I can learn from them. Can you believe I even learnt
something from Pirates of the Caribbean,
Barbossa says “Too late my fate hasn’t been in my own hands.” Those words rang
so true to me. I embraced them because they made me see that I can’t always be
relying on others to make things work out. It’s high time I took my life into my own hands and put make my dreams into realities. But that’s for another
day. 
What I love about Angelina Jolie’s character, Elise Clifton
Ward, is the fact that she commands respect wherever she goes. She is so assured
of herself. She goes about her life seemingly without a care in the world. I
know many times women will have one issue or another that makes them so
worried. However this shouldn’t be
common knowledge to anyone who meets you. I’ve fallen into the trap of speaking
too freely about my problems until I realized that I’m not the only one with
problems. It doesn’t hurt to forget about yourself for one minute so that you
can listen to someone else’s problems.
The other day I was worried about a number of things so I
turned to the one person I thought I could speak to without feeling like I’d exposed
my issues to the whole world. To my shock and horror I got a reply to the
effect of, “I’m worried about this and that and I don’t want to think about
what it is that you are telling me.” Talk about not caring whether or not you
hurt another’s feelings.
We as human beings can be so wrapped up in our own little
worlds that we fail to notice anything else. Once in a while think about that
friend of yours who’s been having a difficult time at work or in school or that
relative of yours whose life has fallen apart. You’ll come to realize that your
problems aren’t as big as you made them out to be. A challenge that I think
would do each of us some good (I strongly recommend this for myself too) is not
to utter a word of complaint. You can put this as a long time goal but start
small. Make it a daily thing. Each morning when you wake up say to yourself, “I
will not utter a word of complaint today.” And check yourself each time you are
about to complain about something. And how about instead of complaining, get up
and do something about it e.g. write to the editor of your local newspaper or
approach the authority concerned. Sometimes you’ll find that people are not
aware that there is a problem and they are glad when you mention it to them. With
a little struggle you’ll be able to get rid of that habit.
Hope you are having a good week J