Bridget Jones Diary is a fun movie to watch in January.
The opening scenes are Bridget’s family’s New Year party and we hear her wrestling with that old problem of resolutions. How to make life better? Every year, we take some time at the beginning of January and start to think about how to improve our lives. What should we do this year that we didn’t do last year? And what should we stop doing?
New Year often feels like a threshold, as we look back and say farewell to the year which has just ended, and celebrate the one which is just beginning. Thresholds can feel like major junctions too though, and Bridget, like most of us, is wondering about her whole direction in life. Is it time not just to change some habits, but to think bigger…..to think about what kind of life we want to live, and what we might have to do to achieve that.
This movie can be watched as an uplifting love story, but we can use it too, to stop and think about our own lives. What was that last year like? How would I like this year to be different? And what might shall I do to try and bring that about?
My resolution this year was to be more aware of when I was in a negative frame of mind and expressing critical or cynical comments from that mental state, of when I was in a positive frame of mind and expressing praise and positivity from that mental state, and in as a consequence of paying attention to that, to change the balance between the two, favouring the positive as much as I possibly could.
How’s your year been? And how would you like this year to be different? What’s on the other side of the threshold, and are you ready to step through and begin your new journey. You’ve never been in this year before, and you won’t be passing through it again!
