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Arthur (the original version)

Today I watched the movie Arthur.  I kind of love this movie.  The idea of the movie is that Arthur is forced to choose between marrying someone he doesn’t love and having tons of money or choosing to be poor and have love… ultimately he chooses love.  I would do the exact same.  I think material possessions and having tons of money is completely useless if you don’t have love.

I’d rather have a loving family that we enjoy spending time together and be dirt poor… then being alone and having all the money in the world.

In the movie he ends up getting the money anways in the end.  If I were to meet someone and they were super rich and wanted to marry me but I didn’t want to be with them I would have to turn them down.  I think actual love is rare and precious.  I think when two people REALLY do love each other and want to marry each other only because they can’t stand to be apart from each other that is the best thing in the world.

I can’t wait for the day that I am married and have someone that I constantly want to call just to tell her that I love her.  That I buy stupid little gifts for her or come home with flowers just because I felt like it for no special reason.  Or just write songs about her and for her.  Or just think of tons of different ways to make her smile… make her favorite thing for dinner…  stuff like that.  I plan to never stop showing my love to her… I just wish it would hurry up and happen already!

I have hope that one day it will happen.  Even though every day that passes is another day that I see someone else find it and not me.  Just have to have hope that one day I will fall for someone and they will love me back just as much… and it will be awesome.  Sometimes I get sad just spending all this time waiting… but I know eventually when it’s supposed to happen it will.

It’s funny that I watched this movie today and that it was sort of about giving up material goods for something immaterial.  This was pretty much what was the sermon in church today.  Finding happiness not in material goods but in something more spiritual.  I think maybe our society is too into the tangible items… That stuff is pretty cool and all… tangible things… but there is something to be said about just finding happiness no matter what kind of clothing you wear or the car you drive etc. etc.

I think maybe it’s good to find spiritual happiness first and put all your love in that and then put all your love into someone.  So I hope to find both of those.   I have hope that one day it will all work out.  For now I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing.  And keep myself open to what is around me and just listen for what I’m supposed to do next in my life.

All I know is that when I do get married... I want my wife and when we eventually have kids my whole family to go to church as one single whole family all together every sunday.  I want us to also all be involved in the church one other day a week too.

When the kids are grown and 18 they can then choose what they want to do as far as religion.  But I want to find a girl to marry who also wants to raise kids in the church.  I want me and her to raise our how family in the church all together.  That's one thing I know for sure at this point.

I’ll leave everyone with one of my favorite lines in the movie…

Spoken by Hobson to Arthur:

“You spoiled little bastard! You're a man who has everything, haven't you, but that's not enough. You feel unloved, Arthur, welcome to the world. Everyone is unloved. Now stop feeling sorry for yourself. And incidentally, I love you.”