Change: A key word in personal development. Within every
relationship, there has always been some sort of change in someone whether big
or small. In so many Hollywood movies today we see two people find a
relationship together and the happy ending doesn’t happen until that person
accepts who they are and willingly takes the change that presents itself with
the budding relationship.
All these Hollywood movies tell their audience that change
isn’t always bad; it is a force that helps us grow into the ideal person we
want to become. While real life isn’t a movie, I believe we can take the lesson
out of the movie and pin it to our own lives. That is, take the fact that
unless we are willing to accept the change that occurs in every new
relationship, we won’t ever find our happy ending.
Take for example, the movie: The Accidental Husband. This movie is about a well-educated and successful woman who knows exactly what she wants. The main character, Emma Lloyd, was already engaged and hosted as a love expert on a popular radio show that helped women with their relationship troubles. Her views on love at first seemed very realistic and she was very concerned with the facts unlike most girls who view love as something more dreamy and magical. In the end her views on love seem to have changed completely as she accepts that love cannot always be explained and doesn’t have to be.
If someone were to watch only the beginning scene and then
the ending scene, the change would seem so drastic and unexplained, but when
context is added and the audience views the budding relationship, Emma Lloyd’s change
in life seems completely natural, something I believe we all yearn to have:
that big change where we can finally sit down and breathe because that hole in
our heart is no longer mysteriously missing.
Another example would be the movie No Reservations. This
movie is about a very successful restaurant chef, Kate Armstrong, who seems to
have life the way she wants it. Disaster strikes when her sister dies in a car
crash and she’s forced to take care of her young niece. Along with that, after coming
back to her restaurant from taking some time off, a new chef threatens her
position as head chef. The story soon turns into a love affair between this
chef, Nick Palmer, and Kate Armstrong. With the help of her niece and new love
interest, Kate starts to view life in a completely new way becoming more
laid back and enjoying life’s small pleasures. From being very strict, precise
and wanting life to be “perfect,” she turns into a woman who doesn’t mind
imperfections in life and of course by accepting the change that came her way
she seems much more happy in the end.
I guess these movies in the end are saying that no one knows
where life is taking us; we could end up somewhere we completely didn’t expect,
and while we seem so blissfully happy in one moment something could come along
and completely change the way we look at life. So much of our happy endings are
because we accepted the change that comes our way.
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