-Danielle Watling
Recently I watched the movie ‘Eat, Pray, Love’. I know, yes the movie with Julia Roberts. I was watching the new season of ‘Arrested Development’ and they referenced the book. So I thought maybe I should see what this is all about to understand the hilarious reference. I began to watch the movie with an open mind not knowing what to expect. Of course there’s lots of eating and then there is praying and meditation and finally love. Full circle – Eat, Pray, Love! Watching it you want to travel, eat a lot of pizza in Naples and meditate in India. Without spoiling the movie, I just want to share a few things I learned besides my food cravings watching this movie. I didn’t expect to gain so much from the movie, but I got reminded about certain life lessons. The main one is love and balance. Through the movie Julia’s character is looking for balance, and when she finally feels balanced through meditation, clearing her mind and living life peacefully, love enters into her life. She had a well balanced life and was truly learning to love herself and get into a healthy routine that made her feel at ease and open and alive. When love comes into her life she’s not too sure how to balance it, so the only thing she can do is reject it for fear her balance will be shaken. It isn’t until her ‘medicine man’ tells her (loosely in my own words) sometimes we may feel we lose balance in life when we try something new like falling in love, but it’s okay to be in love and feel like our balance from before is gone because love is the balance we need to live life. So if you feel like you are loosing balance, just remember we all need love in our life to feel completely balanced, everything else from before will slowly figure itself out. Open yourself up to love, from a lover, a mother, daughter, sister, stranger. Everything and everyone is connected through universal love.
