What The Movie Moonstruck Taught Me About Real Self...

Nothing exposes the false self and reveals the true self like real love.  This can be terrifyingly compelling.  When I think about  this, I think of the heart-string pulling scene from one of my favorite films- Moonstruck.  Loretta falls in love with a man called Ronnie, who is the brother of her fiance`, Johnny.  Ronnie is the archetype of the man awake to himself- in his body, in his sexuality, in his soul.  When Loretta discovers Ronnie, he has a broken heart, and he doesn't attempt to hide his suffering in any way. Because Ronnie knows his true self, he sees clearly who Loretta really is.

" The past and the future is a joke to me now;
I see that they ain't here.  I see that only thing
that is here is you.
Loretta. I love you.
Not like they told you love is.
Love don't make things nice
It ruins everything.
It breaks your heart.
It makes things a mess.
We aren't here to make things perfect.
The snowflakes are perfect, not us.  The stars are perfect.
We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts- to love the wrong people and die.
The storybooks are bullshit."

If you haven't seen the film Moonstruck, buy, download it, rent it, watch it on youtube...either way, it is a lesson in courage, change and freeing yourself from storybooks and following the path of your true self - no ego, no expectations...just finding your one and only true love...yourself.

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xoxo
BT&HB