I watched the movie, “The Bridges of Madison County” this afternoon. I have watched this movie several times and I away find value in it! The Bridges of Madison County is a movie that was adapted from a fictional novel that tells the story of a housewife in Iowa who meets a National Geographic photographer who came to Madison County to photograph the covered bridges there. The photographer arrives in town shortly after the housewife’s family leave town to attend the county fair. The two engage in an intense life changing four-day love affair, which leads to them both having to make challenging decisions at the end of the movie.
As I watched this movie I thought about the English conversation group lesson that I would teach today on introducing the subject of the power of positive thinking to the group. I saw a parallel in the character of the photographer in the “Bridges of Madison County” and my role in the role I would play later this evening. The photographer helped the housewife in the film see and experience something that she had looked at in life on a daily basis in a very different way. In helping her to see the beauty in those old covered bridges he helped her to rediscover or experience more beauty in her life.
It is interesting how a new person can come into our life and offer us a different way of thinking or experiencing our lives. They can help us see some beauty or value in something, someone, or even some idea that we have seen or heard on a daily basis in our lives that we did not find any value in. I have experienced this on a daily basis in my life! I hope to offer the people who attend our conversation group tonight a different way of thinking about and experiencing their lives. It’s not the best way or the only way, just a different way!
MORE ABOUT THE MOVIE, “THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridges_of_Madison_County_(film)
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