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Write about a film or book that has stayed with you.

 This is going to be the only thing I do today part 2 of the blog will be out tmmrw. I have watched a ton of movies and read some new books. I want to write about a movie today. As a usual tradition, I watch scary movies in October. I did not do a good job of watching movies in a chronological order however there was a movie that I watched called The Night of the Hunter. It is about siblings who lost their parents one to jail and one because she married a man who she thought was a priest but really a con man. The dad of the kids robbed a bank and ran back home and hid the money in the young girl's stuffed animal and only told the son. The son swore to never tell anyone where the money was and he told his sister. The priest tries to find the money by preaching to their mom and their mom ends up moving the con man / priest in and the con man killed the mom and pushed her into the river. The kids run away and they found a place to go where they would be safe and in the end the con man...
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All About Love - bell hooks' series pt 1.

 I have completed a trilogy of All About Love series. I enjoyed the quest to know how to love, what is love, what constitutes as love in both romantic or not. In Communion it was about where love starts. It starts within and can then exudes and touches all parts of your life. Female self-love beings with self-acceptance. 

There some questions or comments that I posed for each chapter I will list them below:

1. How do I want to be loved? How can I fit more love in my life? I want to be loved by being known, by being understood. I think I have said on this blog before that before anything being understood is important to me. Because I am misunderstood. I want to be met with a secure place where I can be the person I know I am. I want to allow more love by saying 'yes' to more things. I do not like to push myself out of my comfort zone but I am trying. 

2. When you know who you are, when a foundation has been established, one can truly search for love. (This is the chapter that talks about Sylvia Plath I talked about it for a bit last blog but want to bring it up again.) "I knew I wasn't normal. It wasn't normal to want to kill yourself. I knew I needed help....I was in the company of lots of talented, smart young women who wanted to walk on a path different from the one our parents chose for us. Our rebellion places ua at risk psychically. There was an emotional cost to not fitting in. Those of us who suffered because we did not have enough maps to chart our journey and were not able to fully articulate our stories found solace in the writing of Sylvia Plath. She was an icon for my generation, because her experience typified the conflicts we endured or struggled with and the contradictions we were going through." I love(d) Sylvia Plath. I felt a wave a uncertainty of who I was. I felt lost and wandered through different phases of who I could be and landed somewhat in the middle of someone I can be proud of.  I wish I could be okay with no being okay but I do not know how to start that. I do know reading Sylvia Plath helped the ache I felt, the longing for something unknown. I am okay now. I am okay now. And to quote Ms. Plath "I am. I am. I am." 

3. One thing I agree with is the idea that women are not there to satisfy men's sexual desire.

4. I agree with New Age masculinity which is defined as emotional intelligence, compassion, equality and openness. 

5. Women / Feminism is not responsible of the continued violence against men. Men are responsible for men. Stereotype that men cannot be soft can change only if society has changed. 

6. Women are often called 'needy' if she demands love, howe I am personally seeing a trend of encouraging love to be expressed. My sister and brother in law are raising my niece and nephew to be muturing and expressive. "Females are usually more socialized than males to speak of our longing for love, even to crave love, when there is no connection made between the cultivation of these feelings and the fact we are not taught how to give and receive love"  There is the quote from Perks of being a Wallflower: "We accept the love we think we deserve." I can look back and see the actions I allowed to happen, the denial that I did not need love. I do need love, I want to love and I want to make people feel loved around me. 

7. Anitpatriacal thinking assumes that both women and men are both capable of learning how to love or giving and receiving love, is the only foundation on which to construct sustained, meaningful, mutual love. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin. We being this journey to love by examining the ideas and beliefs we have held about the nature of intimacy and true love. 

8. What are my thoughts about having a period? I just called it the witches' curse only because I keep getting them on the holidays. Which sucksss LOLOLOL

I am going to make this into a second part. I know I have an another thing I have to write about which is the next set of Kant notes and the second part of the discussion about I think desire? I cannot remember. I do not want to make this blog all fluff and no stuff. I am going to bring back the prompts as well starting tomorrow 

"We like to be out in nature so much because it has no opinion about us." - Friedrich Nietzsche 


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