Monday, February 23, 2009

Moments passing by

I am very stuck on moments that cannot happen again.

By this, I mean that I get upset when something was supposed to happen and it didn't, and because of the nature of the thing, there is no chance to experience it the same way again.

I'll take the current example. We had said months ago that we wanted to have a movie marathon of a series that our friends had never seen before. I was really excited about sharing this experience with them. I had seen the movies already, but since i had introduced them to the books and urged them to read them, i was really excited about all of us seeing the movies together and getting to see their initial reactions.

They went ahead and watched the first two on their own. I was disappointed, but urged them to watch the rest with us.

Now they want to watch them all alone first, and say, "we'll all watch them together soon!"
a) I don't believe it. Not that their intentions aren't sincere, but it just won't happen. Without the motivation of seeing the movies, the time will not be made. I can almost bet everything on this.
b) That feels stale. They will already know the movies; the experience won't be the same.

Irrational spinning off brain is so upset that I don't even want to hear them talk about the movies; they ruined a moment for me and now it's too late. I will never have that moment with them ever, ever again. Watching the movies with them later on will only remind me of this and it makes me not want to do it.

Rationally, I don't know if I should be feeling upset. And I would get *something* out of watching them with them again.

Argh. I don't know if I'm fucked up about this or not.

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