Temporary
May 21st, 2009
One of my favorite movies of all time is “Moonstruck,” written by the talented playwright, John Patrick Shanley. ( I love that an Irish kid wrote a movie about an Italian family… apparently, his good friend was Italian and he hung out at their house often.)
Today, when I was feeling a little overwhelmed…like everything is up in the air, I remembered one of the best lines in the movie.
Loretta (Cher) shows her father, Cosmo (Vincent Gardenia) , the ring Johnny (Danny Aiello) had given her for their engagement. It was his ring, a pinky ring.
Carmine:
It’s a man’s ring…
Loretta:
It’s temporary.
Carmine:
Everything is temporary!
Besides the amazing delivery, it sounds funny… and I always smiled when I heard the line.
But it was only today (more than twenty years later) when I trying to control what I can’t possibly control, I heard that simple line, so clearly in my head, “Everything is temporary.” I finally realized its awesome truth.
–Sue
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