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Choices Becoming More Permanent
Having just come back from watching Everything Everywhere All at Once, I’m filled with a whole host of emotions. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a film that made me laugh hysterically and also tear up in another few more minutes back to back, for several hours. In fact, I haven’t felt more satisfied leaving a film in over two and a half years since seeing this.
But the film is not really what I want to exclusively talk about or think through this week. Much of the themes that get brought up in the film, notions about family, regret, redemption, all of it came to the forefront of my mind as I thought about where I’m at in spring 2022. Half of my Uber drive back home with my friends coming back from the film was spent talking through our favorite moments, and the other half was spent internally processing how tragic it felt to see the protagonist, Evelyn, to see her life play out. I didn’t know how to take her growth in such an abrupt time, and I don’t know if I found it convincing. However, it did push me to think about whether I was ready to confront different facets of my life where decisions are feeling more and more permanent.
I used to accept and acknowledge the point that we all sort of need to give ourselves some grace in figuring out things in our twenties. I know that at times I’ve been much harder on myself for not doing well in a class, not…
