Smile for me, baby!

"Don't worry be happy."

I just watched the movie, "American Beauty" the other day, quite a good show.  We had talked about it in class...before then I had grouped the movie with "American Pie," and had never wanted to watch it....not that I don' like American Pie, but American Beauty seemed like a copy cat at the time.  

but ANYWAYS...my point:

when all things go wrong, and there's nothing left to be happy about...the world is beautiful.  In the movie, Kevin Spacey was a depressed man who had nothing left to live for.  But then he sees this beautiful young girl, who made him excited about life for the first time in 20 years.  It seems kinda of creepy but if you notice, there are always roses when the young girl appears in his fantasies...I think he sees something in her that he once saw in his wife.  This young girl was so alive and free...something that his wife used to be but had not become.  Anyways, when he dies, and his flashbacks appear in the end...he says, 

 "I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars... And yellow leaves, from the maple trees, that lined my street... Or my grandmother's hands, and the way her skin seemed like paper... And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's brand new Firebird... And Janie... And Janie... And... Carolyn. I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world.  Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday."