Literary Tag

This is what you do:

1. Pick up the nearest book (at least 123 pages)
2. Turn to page 123
3. Find the 5th sentence
4. Post the 5th sentence on your blog
5. Tag 5 people


"There was room to dance again."

This line is from The Bridges of Madison County. In this section of the book, Francesca, the farmer’s wife, is dancing with Robert Kincaid, the out-of-town photographer. She is being with someone who made her feel good, made her feel like a woman, complete and happy, to be in love with someone completely. Later in the book you see that she is desperately in love with Robert and would leave her husband and grown kids to run away with him, if he asked her to. But she doesn’t want to go because she knows it would destroy Richard, her husband, and she couldn’t just leave her kids. He didn’t ask her to. She stayed, they were never again together, loved each other until they died, alone.

I liked this line, especially out of context. There was room to dance again; to find yourself renewed and rejuvenated and ready to appreciate life once more. Sometimes we get weighed down with all that goes on again that we forget the things that make life fun, worthwhile and meaningful. We get into a rhythm in life that we take ourselves, our spouses, and the people that are important to us for granted. We lack passion, love, understanding and move more like robots trying to get to the end of another day. We forget and disregard dreams, goals, and ideas we once had because we think we have become something different. Maybe…hopefully, something better? We feel the need to shelf part of who we are to be something that someone else thinks we should be, or sometimes, even something we think we should be. Once we realize that just because we are married and have kids, or have something else going on in our lives, doesn’t mean that we have to abandon the part of us that makes us different. We don’t need to “fit in” or “make due” with who we are, once we accept and aspire to those things that we enjoy and need to nurture, then we can be ourselves, respected as a mother, a spouse, and an individual. Two are one, but you can’t have a whole without a full half.

Hmm, did I make any sense to anyone besides me? Maybe I need to start having topics if you really want to delve into me.

I don’t really know who reads my blog…so… if you read this, consider yourself tagged!