Today I was feeling pretty frustrated. I'm the kind of person who needs to stay busy, and, for whatever reason, this week has been unusually uneventful. Today was about the 4th day in a row that I've been home all day basically, with the exception of work, the gym, taking my brother places, and one very brief night with some friends at Zephyr's. Anyway...so I'm sitting on my couch, watching The OC of course, trying to find someone who's not busy...but nobody. By this time I'm getting a little stir crazy, so I resort to my go-to coping mechanism...go see a movie that I've been wanting to see but that nobody wants to see with me, alone. Today it was Away We Go at the Laemmle in Pasadena. Then I got stressed out because I didn't want to pay for parking, and I convinced myself that my car would get towed if I parked in the Vroman's parking lot. Then I stopped by the $2 theater to see if anything I wanted to see was playing...no luck. Then, as I drove around for about five minutes feeling a little discouraged at the thought of having to go back home, I thought, "What the hell!" So I went to the Paseo and I Love You, Beth Cooper just happened to be playing right when I got there.
Anyway, here's my thing. Seeing a movie alone for me is the one thing that always puts me at ease. It's where I go when everybody's driving me crazy or I just need to be alone and get away or when I have a problem that I can't figure out how to solve or I'm depressed or lonely or if I just feel like having an independent day to convince myself that I don't need anybody else. If you don't have a coping mechanism like this, get one. There have been many days when my sanity was teetering off the edge until I bought that over-priced movie ticket.
I'd imagine that it's something different for everyone. What's yours?
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