All About Eat.Pray.Love.....My thoughts on a really good movie....In my opinion entirely

For those of you who don't know about the movie Eat.Pray.Love, it’s about a lady in her mid-thirties (played by Julia Roberts) who's name is Liz, goes through like a mid-life crisis (in short) and ends up realizing she doesn't really love her husband and feeling as though life has no meaning. She gets a divorce and then shortly later ends up dating this other guy who is twelve years younger than her and realizes he is not going to fill her life and she is just using him to find happiness, so she breaks up with him and decides she is going to go on a yearlong trip: first to Italy, then India, then finally in Bali. She was to experience Eating and being happy in Italy. She wants to find peace through Prayer in India. She wants to find a real Love again in Bali. However, her preconceived notions of these three things are swayed and changed, and by the end of the movie she is a new person.

The purpose of this blog is to tell you about those three things and the strong meanings they hold.

I may be completely wrong, but this movie just made me realize lots of things. I just got done watching it.

When "Liz" went to Italy, she had this idea of eating and happiness as she saw from the movies and National Geographic’s she collected, however she learned much more. I come from a big Italian family; my mother’s father came off the boat in Elise Island in the late 20's with my great-grandparents. The thing i learned the most from my family (well one of the things) is food bringing the family together! It does! I remember going to my great grandparents’ house for Easter growing up and seeing my great grandma look at us children and say "you looka to skinny! You need to eat! Manga manga!" (Try to imagine that in an Italian accent). Well when we got older we got smart, and so one time when we went over to her house for Easter dinner and as to not be made to eat so much, we stuffed pillows up our shirts so she would think that we had eaten and gained weight and not make us eat so much. hahahahah, oh it was a good time. Anyway, besides eating i realized the importance of family and how if we want to get through life, we need good families, good friends, and good relationships. Family is so important it helps build that relationship with God. Not only that, it just teaches us to be good people and to really enjoy good times and live a little. So in the movie, i think "Liz" realized that "eating and living happy" was what got the "Italians" by, it was family and relationships, and having that lasting bond.

When she went to India, she wanted to pray and was expecting to find the same things she learned in Italy. However, like everyone knows, a different country means a different culture and a different life style. She came wanting to forget everything that happened in New York and wanted to live life like in Italy, and wanted to meditate on that. But she found she couldn't focus and concentrate. She learned to clear her mind and concentrate on the here and now not on the past and how to pray. I grew up in a Christian home my whole life. So when i was young my mom taught me how to pray. When i grew up, i realized it was more than talking to a person i couldn't see and asking him for things that were out there. I realized I was talking with the creator of the universe, and that I was having conversation WITH GOD. Prayer has become a center of my life. No I am far from perfect, and a lot of times I forget to talk to Abba (God), and fluff off a quick prayer, but when I do get back on track, pray has such a more meaning in life. Liz, at the end of her journey in India , realized, that in order to have a good prayer life, God must be the center of that and taking a vow of silence sometimes to clear your mind and listen is what helps the most.

Her last stop was in Bali. A place she was hoping to find Love: loving herself and finding balance. what she didn't expect to find was a Lover, a Man, a Husband, nor her balance that involved trusting again and letting her self-open up. Like, Liz, I struggle with trust. I have experience so much hurt and pain in my life, I often wonder why I am even alive. Why did God save me? Why couldn't he have just let me die? But he saved me and has a purpose for my life. My problem now is trusting him and letting him have control of my life. I am sacred of getting hurt and like "Liz", i thought my balance was in constant prayer and meditation and no action on my part. However, my life is not a movie, and unlike Liz, I am still waiting for the right love, my awakening didn't lead to twenty minutes of me finding him. (It’s good to wait though, it makes us stronger).

So what’s the point of all this? Well, I have heard people say that the movie was "ok" "ehh, it was alright" "it sucked" and stuff like that. Well, to you people, who feel that way, watch it again with a new perspective. For example, the one above. And realize that what "Liz" went in search of, all of use search for and still do.

So my fellow blogger’s, I hope this post has inspired you in some way and given you a chance to relax. Till tomorrow then.