how much of human life is lost in waiting.

25May08

From Garden State.

Andrew Largeman: You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone.

Sam: I still feel at home in my house.

Andrew Largeman: You’ll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it’s just gone. And you can never get it back. It’s like you get homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. I mean it’s like this rite of passage, you know. You won’t have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it’s like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that’s all family really is… A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.

This came up because I was studying late last night with my iPod on and, um, accidentally ended up watching the whole movie somewhere between switching from my Recently Added playlist and scrolling over to the Now Playing selection on the clickwheel main menu.

Zach Braff said it right in the movie.

That imaginary place is all there is. But it’s everything.

Listening to Susie Suh’s Give Me Heart:

Give me heart
Just give me hope
Give me love
Just give me warmth
Give me all I never knew
Give me something
To hold on to.

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