you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes....

I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. - Forrest Gump

for years i never would acknowledge this as one of my favorite movies, and for the vein and lame reason that i felt like everybody says it's one of their favorite movies.... and i never wanted to be considered ordinary. but admittedly, among Lost in Translation, Dead Poet's Society, and a few others.... Forrest Gump is one of my absolute favorites. each time i catch a scene on tv, read a quote, or see Tom Hanks, i'm reminded how much this movie touched me. i remember i was 13, i saw it with the usual crew of the fox mill girls, and i could not stop crying. from the second his leg braces fell off as he was running, to the end scene at jenny's grave, i was wiping tears. i remember a woman coming up behind me on the escalator telling me she was surprised a movie like this would speak to someone my age.


for a lot of reasons i remember getting this movie, i remember empathizing with young forrest, i remember trying to fathom the reality that many of those story-lines are and were for real people. the moms of kids with challenges, the soliders, the vietnam vets, the protestors, etc.... life is crazy. it's about being lived and explored, investigated and challenged, but it's too precious to be careless with.


the above quote is one of my favorites from the movie.
i tend to agree completely.
xo,
cw