Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - Posts

The Repetitive Nature of Things

Why does history repeat itself? Because we weren't paying attention the first time.

It is hard being a parent and being forced to watch certain kids movies dozens of times in a row. I think we've seen Nemo 50 times, and we watch Cinderella almost daily for the past month. I am forced to purchase or rent new movies just to keep my sanity. Why do kids need to watch everything so often? Don't they get bored?

Well, I'm home from work and I treated myself to "300" because I hadn't seen it yet. I don't even know if its a good movie, but it is a movie that I enjoyed watching, so I watched it almost every day last week. My own little Spartan does nothing but nurse all day and my personal body issues are in awe of the beautiful abs these men were sporting.

Six times isn't so bad really. I watched Zoolander every night during my first pregnancy. Every night for 9 months. It was funny and I helped me not want to throw up all night as I was prone to do. There must be something soothing about the repetition. Like the waves of the ocean.

Is this madness? No, its Sparta.