Wonder Years...

So anyways, its the middle of the working week and the weekend won’t come quick enough and when it does it won’t hang around long enough. I shouldn’t be wishing time away as it goes fast enough already and I’m gonna be 40 next year...shit now I’m depressed!

I left school over 20 years ago, where has the time gone? People say the best years of your life are the ones spent at school. I don’t totally agree with that concept, I had a good time when I was a kid, then a teenager, but school was never that exciting for me except when we had school holidays. For the majority of us its a shame that when we grow up we can’t have or afford the same amount of holidays we got when we were at school.

Since leaving school its difficult to determine what “lessons in life” I’ve learnt and when. However one thing I can benchmark my understanding of “life” would be the movies I have watched, but specifically the movies I have watched more than once. The best example of this that springs to mind would be the Ron Reiner classic “When Harry Met Sally”, I saw this when I was 17, with my best mate, when it was released in 1989. We all remember the “orgasm” scene that the trailers and advertising for the movie used this to great effect. But I remember very clearly leaving the cinema not really understanding this romantic comedy and feeling somewhat disappointed. Four years later, with my girlfriend at the time, I watched it a second time, and it all (well nearly all) made sense! I laughed throughout the entire picture and after wondered what I’d missed the first time around....”life” was the logical answer, I’d experienced a bit of life as a grown up! Since then I must have watched “When Harry Met Sally” a dozen times or more and every time there is always a part which strikes a chord with me, serious or funny....but sadly I still haven’t made a woman “meow!”