Julia helped me find my path.

Dear America,

Did you ever think you would be following a woman that was so in love with butte?!

Love,

Brian

I do not always have to have a rant. It may seem to many of you out there that all I do is rant. Well this is far from the truth. I am not saying that I don't occasionally get onto my soap box , but I am after all a Hitchcock and that is what we seem to be known for. Also, I have not had anytime off since I started this blog, but now I have had three days off and I have to say that there have not been that many ranting explosions issued forth from my mouth. I have had moments, when someone forgets to use their blinker and before I can stop myself "You stupid pin head. Do they not use blinkers where you come from? Is it too much work to flip the blinker stick? (yes this is what I call it) Will it burn too many calories for you fat ass to turn on the blinker?" but as I have not had to listen to 15,000 people repeatedly say splender (yes you will hear about this for the rest of my life) then I do not have much to rant about.

So today I will be talking about my new found love for Julia Child. How did this happen you may ask? Well i decided that I needed some me time. I needed to get away from it all. So my usual course of action is to go see a movie. I am not a big go see the movie with a bunch of people kind of guy. I get annoyed when people talk to me, ask me questions, or want to make observations about the movie. I have a select group of people that I can see a movie with at any point and time, but they have all been extensively trained by me as to how to act when I go to a movie.

Today I decided I would go see Julia and Julie. I was not disappointed. From the moment we see Maryl Streep as Julia Child, you forget that she is Maryl, she become Julia. I loved seeing Julia dare people to tell her she could not do something. She would not take no for an answer, and repeatedly did things as she saw fit. She loved her husband, and wanted only to enjoy the life that she would have with him.

I was inspired by this woman. I was also inspired by Julie, or should I say I knew what it was like to be Julie. To feel that you have no direction in your life, that everyone around you is succeeding and you are not. To feel a desire to have more than what you have. She talked of living in Queens over a pizza place, and I talk of living in my fathers house once again. She worked in a job where she felt she was making no difference, and I feel the same. How many times can you put a donut in a bag in one day?

What makes these two women the new loves of my life? The refused to be put into a box. They dared to figure out what they needed from the world and took it. Julia Child worked on her cookbook for years. She must have rewritten that thing many times, but she never stopped. She never felt sorry for herself, and if she did she promptly stopped. The same for Julie. She cried and fussed and laughed and fought. What she realized is that she is human. So when she cried because the stuffing fell out of the dunk, she wasn't crying about the stuffing. She was crying because life is hard. Life is confusing and will send you in a million different directions. No one ends up where they set out to be. If they did, then they are lying. Life is to random. To exciting , to hard. You cannot follow a list. You cannot walk in a straight line. You cannot live in a box. All you can do is travel your own path. It will go uphill, will turn to the left and right. It will be rocky and it will be smooth, but it will be your path. You are the only one that can travel it. You are the only one that can walk it correctly. Why you may ask. Why can't I walk the path that my friends are walking? Because that is their path. You may walk right beside them, but you are not walking their path. So walk the way that you want to America. It's your path, enjoy it.