My newest favorite movie is Last Holiday with Queen Latifah and LL Cool J. The premise of the movie is that Queen Latifah's character, Georgia Byrd, has been diagnosed with a rare disease and is told she has only 3 weeks to live. Being a shy, careful person all her life, she decides to spend her last 3 weeks in luxury at a beautiful hotel in Prague.
I saw this movie for the first time when we visited the Atlantis in April. It seemed quite appropriate to watch this movie about a woman living her life fully while we were vacationing at the vacation spot of our dreams.
My husband Chris was so proud of himself because from the first time that he saw previews for this movie, he knew I would like it. Then, when I fell in love with it head over heels, he was quite smug. :-)
I couldn't wait until March 9 when the movie was released on DVD. Tuesday, March 9, came, and to Target I went to buy the movie. Not only did I buy it and watch it that night, but I've watched it four times since then, making it 5 times in about as many weeks.
Why do I love this movie? It's certainly a feel-good, very chick movie. But it also has a happy ending (just about a necessity for me when I'm watching movies), and the basically-everyone-is-good philosophy. The one "bad" guy even redeems himself somewhat.
Besides all that, though, the reason I love this movie is because I am all about living my life to the fullest, not letting fear get in my way, no matter how hard it is to persevere despite my fears.
I have this great idea for a new company, Write Well University, and I've even scaled back (okay, I'm actually in the process of closing) my virtual assistance practice in order to pursue it. But I find that every now and then I'm plagued by fears of not being good enough, of not being able to create something that's worthwhile and truly helps people write better. Still, I press on.
In the words of Georgia Byrd, “Next time, we’ll do it differently. We will laugh more. We’ll love more. We’ll see the world. We just won’t be so afraid.”
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