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Over the weekend, Mr Surfer and I watched the movie, “About Time”.
Not to give too much away, it’s about time travel, but only to the past.
Lately, we’ve been running this household on fumes. Lots of trips to the GP, appointments with specialists, compromising around each other’s busy schedules, playing tag team caring for sickie twinions due to missed preschool days.
Truth be told, under the pressures of keeping a marriage in tact, we’ve been getting a little stabby.
It’s been a while we sat still on our couch and enjoyed a movie together.
But serendipity got us real good with this flick.
Its premise asks:
“If it were possible, which particular moment would you return to?”
“What would you change?””
“What would you do differently?”
It made me think.
What if I didn’t study Japanese in university? What if I hadn’t moved overseas for all those years? Would I still have the family I have today and this abundance in love and laughter?
Perhaps, I would’ve picked up the courage to leave that mundane office job, follow my dreams to start my own business?
But for me, there was a far more thought provoking message in the movie:
“Which particular events of your life would you leave perfectly alone?”
All those times that were far from perfect or flawless. Yet they created delicious, nostalgic memories leaving a tingle riding up my spine, planting a huge everlasting smile on my face.
The 4th birthday party’s empty piñata leaving many a preschooler disappointed but had every adult bowling over in laughter at our parenting epic fail.
Walking precariously through the creaky corridor of the first home we bought, nervously wondering if this house – the biggest purchase ever – is also a sound one.
Too often we try to meticulously plan an existence filled with maximum happiness, minimum sorrow or dismay; fretting in trying to control the uncontrollable; we forget to float in that one fleeting moment in time.
What if we were to simply accept the unexpected? Appreciate the unintentional.
Discover the delights of the extraordinary in the ordinary.
And as eloquently expressed in the movie:
“We’re all travelling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best; to relish this remarkable ride…”
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“Which moment in your past would you like to revisit and why?”
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Lydia C. Lee says
Wow, just one? The moment just gone so I can submit a new and better answer…
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Emily says
BRILLIANT.
Jane@The Hesitant Housewife says
I would like to revisit the first 3 months of my relationship with my (now) husband. We fell pregnant very quickly, and not that I regret it for a second, but I would love to revisit that exciting, giddy with new love, grinning like a fool period of our lives again.
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karina lee says
I would like to go back to when my baby was a newborn. Life was peaceful then, unlike now where she is crying all the time! Gah!
Cybele says
Think I better see this film.
The moment I would never change is meeting my husband at the bus stop all those years ago. How cheesy is that!
x
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Lee-Anne says
Gorgeous photos and sentiments…pause for thought (I want that hedge in my garden!!)
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Emily @ Have A Laugh On Me says
I would like to revisit the moment I ignored my recently fresh ex because I was too hurt to talk to him, and then didn’t make contact. He and his dad died in a tragic yachting accident two weeks later. I’d go back there, make amends, oh the benefit of hindsight.
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Michelle V says
Any moment when I was 3 years old.
My only brother sadly passed away when he was just 12, and I had just turned 4.
I have no memories of him at all.
Everything I know about him is from what my family has told me, or what I see in photo’s.
I would love to just have the chance to see him one time.
Lisa Wood says
Gee Grace you had to ask the hard questions!!!
“Which moment in your past would you like to revisit and why” – Actually Grace I don’t have a moment in time that I would like to revisit because I am looking forward to the moments where I have my wonderful son’s happy, settled down and with their own families….
I try not to look back in time but into the future, imagining how many wonderful memories we are creating with our five boys.
If I could go back I would want to go back to when they were little…
and spend more time “Loving on them” instead of worrying about “boring adult stuff {Housework}”
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Sam Stone @ A Life on Venus says
Wow, what a question! I am not too sure. It would take some pondering. Off the top of my head I would revisit breaking up with my boyfriend, we stayed together about 4 years too long!!
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Bec @ The Plumbette says
I would love to experience my Wedding again. I wouldn’t change anything but that day flew faster than I thought and to get to relive it again would help me cement every cherished moment of that day.
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Renee at Mummy, Wife, Me says
Lovely post. I am obsessed with this movie. I could watch it over and over again. A time I would like to revisit is when I was young and stupid and made a very dumb life changing decision.
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Lisa@RandomActsOfZen says
Ooh good question Grace! I would revisit the first few weeks after Bell was born, because they were a blur, and I would love to drink in every moment. I would also make sure i got more sleep and left the housework!! x
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Becci Birdy Num Num says
That movie About Time had me in tears as it made me want to go back in time and spend a whole lot more time with my Dad who passed away too quickly and just as I had started to get to know him again and my kids had next to no time with him.
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Jade O says
I would love to go back to before my partner passed away and let them know just one more time that I love them and always will. Life goes on and we meet new people, but to let him know that I am always thinking about him gives me peace of mind
Rita @ The Crafty Expat says
I would like to revisit the moment I decided to go to Italy on a whim. I met my future husband and moved across the world! But, I wouldn’t change a thing! I think we are in life exactly where we are supposed to be even if sometimes it is very difficult to believe.
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