Day 11: Julie & Julia

Does your life seem like things are stagnant? Is everything going according to plan, but you feel like things are spiraling out of control? Does it seem like your life is an out-body-experience (as in you are not a participant of your own life)? Sometimes, we need to step outside of ourselves to discover what is inside of ourselves. Risk leads to discovery. Enlightenment can only be obtained through the opportunities that spark our ingenuity.

Now I am not a Zen Master by any means, nor do I claim to be. I don't want to brag. I do have a philosophy minor. I know. Impressive. So I, therefore, feel qualified to make general assumptions on the meaning of life based on the movie Julie & Julia.

But back to the important part, the movie. If you haven't seen the movie trailers in the last few months, you will know that this movie is about a girl who blogs about cooking through Julia Child's cookbook. It is about her rediscovery through Julia's discovery. Her life comes together through the pivotal realization that food is the catalyst for the writer that has been waiting to be liberated. While she learns about herself through blogging and cooking, a parallel universe is going on in which Julia Child is discovering her own talents and ambitions in life. Many things are discovered about Julia Child that can give others hope that you don't have to have instant success in life in order to be successful.

**Fun facts to learn from this movie: Julia Child was not a cook her entire life. It took her several years to be taken seriously as a cook and to get her cook book published. She was married late to a man that she was passionately in love with. (Who knew?)

While this movie was somewhat inspiration for my blog, I found myself identifying excessively with the main character. I know what it's like to want to do something more with my life, something including my passions, which just so happen to be watching movies and apparently writing about them. Many people would consider this to be a "Chick Flick"....While I would agree that it probably is, I think anyone would enjoy it.

So grab a fancy cheese platter, invite some friends over, and enjoy Julie & Julia.

Bon Appetit!


Next Movie: Forgetting Sarah Marshall