In the movies, streets are almost always wet even if it never rains. On film, black shining asphalt shows more contrast, is more dramatic. Is more than just a street.
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But in the real world, it can’t rain all the time. Surfaces are cracked and dry and grey. There are potholes in the real world. What you don’t see in the movies are the hoses streaming, washing the streets before a scene is filmed.
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And so, of course, many people still expect the fairy tale, the drama, and everything to shine. I do it too. But writers do not create the stories of our lives. If we want that glimmer of a wet street we have to deal with rain.
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New Year’s Eve is coming up. And it is one of those times of high expectation. The stories never really leave us. For me, it’s that midnight kiss. I admit it, I think all cynics are secretly romantics with a hard candy shell. I’m like that. No matter what the barriers, I kinda hope I will be standing there at midnight kissing that guy I’m in love with. Maybe we walk out of the club, or the party, or wherever he surprised me at and we step out into a sparkling street, ok maybe it’s softly lit and fluffy with white snow instead.
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It’s a fantasy, and let's face it, even if we get a little bit of that fantasy we’re not satisfied.
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Eventually we have to look outside and see the world for what it really is. You can’t always live a movie life, or rather, you can’t ever live a movie life. We can’t delete the scenes we don’t like. We have to accept reality for what it is. It’s not always easy when we’re always looking at a fantasy and comparing. But this is what we have. And if we can’t learn to accept it, then we end up with nothing but regret.
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