Shattered Sun

So, I watched Kissing Jessica Stein this morning. (Just so y’all know, I got my packing done before I watched it!) Anyway, I absolutely loved it. It’s funny and very entertaining.

But it struck a cord with me. Have you watched a movie and just had a piece of dialogue just hit you? It happened to me while I was watching this. It’s the dialogue spoken by Josh to Jessica on the rooftop: I went to see your show last night and I brought you flowers because I knew you were really sad. But the truth is, you’ve been really happy lately. I’ve noticed, so happy and that’s made me really sad. Inexplicitly, deeply saddened. You know, different from my general snarky, bitter, tortured thing. And um, so anyway, I went to see your show, not knowing exactly why. And I saw your piece. And I stared. And then I had to get out of there. I ran home and I started writing. Just writing, all night. And I wrote all night and into today. I mean, that’s why I was late, I was writing. And you know what, I was happy doing it. I was really happy for the first time in a long time. And as soon as I felt this thing, this happy thing, I wanted to be with you. I mean, you were the first person I wanted to be with. And then it hit me, this was around 6 am, it hit me that the reason I was so sad when you got so happy and I was happier when you got so sad wasn’t because I didn’t want you to be happy, it was just because I wanted to be part of the reason you were happy. I want to make you happy.

Just wow.

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