Be deliriously happy.

Meet Joe Black had always been one of my favorite movies of all time. I find the movie so complelling its simplicity, yet it captures some of the sincerest sentiments of my life. As with other things in have held dear in my life, I liked the movie because it spoke to me.

I guess a lot of people would remember the movie for these lines. And it's true, we should never settle. It's all or nothing - a fairy tale or not at all.

Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart. And I'm not hearing any heart. Cause the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, cause if you haven't tried, you haven't lived. Stay open. Who knows? Lightning could strike.

“There’s not an ounce of excitement, not a whisper of a thrill. This relationship has all the passion of a pair of titmice. I want you to get swept away out there. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture & dance like a dervish…be deliriously happy or at least leave yourself open to be.”

Maybe, people even remember this one, Anthony Hopkins as William Parrish delivered this on his *grand* party:

 I thought I was going to sneak away tonight. What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we're all together, and you're mine for a night. And I'm going to break precedent and tell you my one candle wish: that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, "I don't want anything more." Sixty-five years. Don't they go by in a blink?

But these lines from Allison, William's other daughter really gets to me every time:

Because I know that you love me.

I mean, it's not like it is with her.

Whenever she walks into the room,your eyes light up.

She always gets a smile from you,as opposed to me.

When I walk in,this look comes over your face, like,

"What does she want now?"

But you've never let either of us want for anything.

Oh, God. More than that, Daddy,more than that.

I've felt loved,and that's all that matters.

So, never mind favorites. You're allowed to have one.

The point is,you've been mine.

I guess I'm just touched as to how real it felt. How it's ok to be the non-favorite because you are still loved. How real and how easy people fall into the trap of having favorites, how it's nobody's fault and how everyone should never feel injustice to this little fact. It's so real. That is how movies should be.