Alright I'm not going to lie here. As a person with a rather busy schedule, it is not often I have the ability to take two hours out of my day to spend sitting in a dark room with eyes glued to a movie screen. I love movies--don't get me wrong--it is just that my mind works a mile a minute. That mile may not always be in a straight line, but it's working none the less, and with that said, a two hour silent movie theater experience is just the perfect opportunity for my brain to be thinking that I could be doing about 15 other things during this time. But when I was told I should come see this past Sunday's movie, which happened to be the original "Rocky", I decided that if it was for the Theatre, I would do it.

I'm not much of a sports fan, so I don't really follow basketball or football, and boxing is certainly never Tivo-ed. Knowing this was a boxing movie, I was even more hesitant, but to my pleasant surprise, I found myself chuckling here and there. I never expected there to be such a sense of humor to the movie. I then found myself really pulling for that Rocky. I should have known. No, I'm not a sports fan, but those inspirational, rags-to-riches sports movies just always suck you in--you know which ones I'm talking about. There's a whole lot of them, and this one is probably one of the forerunners.

I was talking with a friend of mine and his brother later that evening. I was asked what part of the movie was my favorite. I thought for a moment and said one of my favorite scenes was after Rocky and Adrian went on their first date and he is trying so hard to get her to come inside but does it in such an unruffled way with that irresistable sense of humor. Their reaction was, "Leave it to a girl to pick out the sentimental parts of the movie."

I wasn't going to let them belittle my favorite scene to the fact that I'm a girl. I took a deep breath in preparation for my response that was going to present the proper evidence to back up my argument. I exhaled and continued, which went something like this:

Yes, this is a boxing movie, but the beautiful thing about this movie was that a person like me who does not have any real consistent interest in boxing can enjoy the film for its obvious themes, not just for the rock 'em, sock 'em fight scenes. It is about triumph. It is about believing in yourself and reaching your wildest dreams. But it is also about love and finding that one person, without whom reaching those dreams would be a much harder task. It is about feeling complete.

So if love and dreams are just a girl thing...

Anywho, without needing to say it, but saying it anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed my two hours in the dark with my eyes glued to the movie screen. Okay I'll admit during this time my mind wandered to what I was going to wear to work the next day and to who might be calling me due to my serious cell phone addiction. But I bet with time I could completely forget the outside world and take some time for myself to just be, and enjoy a movie every now and then. Baby steps...