Quote of the Day

I'm going to get mushy on this one...

Two nights ago Lisa and I watched the movie Dan in Real Life starring Steven Carrell. I thought the movie was "just okay," worth watching once. A definite chick flick, not at all on par with better films of the genre, like Steel Magnolias (which would be in my Top 20 films of all time) or When Harry Met Sally or even Love Story. But it was sweet and sincere and occasionally true.

That's beside the point, though. Yesterday, as I am wont to do the day after I've watched a movie, I went to Rotten Tomatoes to see what others had to say about the movie (Most people, I guess, like to look BEFORE seeing the movie, but I prefer to go into the movie uninformed and then compare my opinions with the movie critics to see if I agree). I ended up on Roger Ebert's web site. In his review he said something that really struck me. He describes when the romantic leads meet for the first time and he says the following:

They begin one of those conversations that threatens to continue for a lifetime.

I read that and I thought, That's how I feel about Lisa. I told her so last night. In many ways, I feel like we're STILL talking about the things we talked about on our first date, that we've been continuing that conversation about God and the meaning of life and happiness and all those kinds of things for nigh on 16 years now, and that we've just taken a break from that conversation from time to time to sleep, go to work, marry, have children, and so on.

It's not always an easy conversation. There are times when it's gotten pretty dark. But it's always a REWARDING conversation, and I'm glad to be having it. I count myself one of the luckiest and wealthiest people in the world because of it.