Two months ago, I started going to the cinema 2 or 3 times a week.
When I had a health check in Japan, I found out that my diastolic blood pressure was high.
It made me realise that maybe I haven’t been truly relaxed for most of my life, and that I needed to try something.
In the Netherlands, there’s a cinema pass, like a movie subscription, which lets me go to many different theatres whenever I want.
So I go there, sit in the dark, and do nothing but watch the creations of someone’s life.
It still hasn’t really worked for my blood pressure.
But I can feel empathy.
I can forget that I exist for a while.
And that realisation makes me feel a little better.
One day, I watched Wong Kar-wai’s “Chungking Express” and “In the Mood for Love”.
One of the characters had the same birthday as me.
For a moment, I felt like I existed inside the film, and I could no longer feel the hard velvet seat underneath my body.
Everyone is acting in their own life.
And the only person who truly understands that you are acting is you.
That fact is my little treasure in my heart.
Happy birthday to me!
I feel so blessed that I can think this way.
