Max Braverman! Welcome to Chambers Academy! Omigosh, seriously the scenes with him are almost starting to annoy me, but I can't help but get caught up in his story, and the part where Adam tells him to go to school not for him but for his mom. Oh MAN. I love it. That is what life's about: doing things for others. And then in the end, we usually get fulfilled too. (How can I learn to remember this when I'm making decisions?)
Lately I have felt very far from God. This has nothing to do with Parenthood, but I just feel like a mess. I guess there's just been a lot of changes going on lately - mostly because I just moved into a new apartment but also because I've been going back and forth about sharing my room with a roommate or not and been meeting with different people for that and also I'm feeling old and not married (because I'm not) and I've been working a lot of jobs which has been great for money but also makes me feel a little bit all over the place, and I really just want to be acting, but I don't have a lot of money or time for it right now which is probably why I should get a roommate, so I can stop feeling like a slave to all these jobs, but also it's not like acting opportunities are flying at me either, but I do have a strategic plan about it for October but it'd probably help to have a roommate by then so I can have money for my strategic plan but also I really like having my own room because I really like having my alone time. (Let's be honest though, my alone time is probably not really helping me that much.)
So anyways it felt good to get back into Parenthood, a constant in my life the past few years, and it also consistently helps me reflect on my own life and think about things I'm trying to suppress, which is what I think all good TV and movies should do.
My brother's in prison, and my dad never called me on my birthday. These are things I end up thinking about when I'm watching Parenthood. So maybe the show doesn't have any crazy fantastical things happening on it, but the people and situations remind me of things in my life, and all of a sudden just when I thought I was escaping my busy-ness to watch a show, I'm now thinking about things I really should be pausing to think about. And it makes me want to write, as all good stories do.
So anyways, I'm going to be sad when it's over, but hey, it's just the beginning.
