Sometimes I like to think of my life as a movie, and therefore will proceed to describe today in the form of a screenplay.
It’s basically Eat Pray Love, except in Barcelona and I am not a middle aged divorcée. I’ve never actually seen the movie, but I’m going to assume that the plot is a direct interpretation of the title.
Emma Stone would star in the role of Pauline Kulka, a young and bright-eyed girl hopelessly falling in love with a foreign city. My first choice was Kate Hudson, because I like to think I look like her. Also, she has great abs. However, casting a 35 year old woman to play a 20 year old would probably not be the best call.
Camera fades into a panorama of Barcelona, a view which can only be seen from the top of a hill called Montjuïc.
Pauline is sitting on a wall, deeply gazing into the distance and contemplating life.
Cue “Wild Horses” by the Rolling Stones.
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Voice over: “I stared at the city trying desperately to take it all in, as if any moment it would shatter like glass into a million little irreconcilable pieces. Suddenly, I was sad. So very profoundly sad. Everything was just so beautiful and I knew that I would have to leave it behind one day.”
I have my freedom but I don’t have much time
Faith has been broken tears must be cried
Let’s do some living after we die
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses we’ll ride them some day