Pictured above is Ryan Gosling as the no-named character in the 2011 film, Drive (aka my favorite movie to this day, besides Forrest Gump...and I'm only admitting that because I'm alone...forever). In my world, there should always be at least one post about Ryan Gosling on a blog. But I'm also alone...forever and I swoon over everything he's ever done (most have been him imitating/being? a killer...so...there's that). But I watched this film for the third time (yes) the other day with a close alone...forever friend (I've mentioned her about three times in this blog...I'm starting to seem less alone than I really am and really into parentheses). While absorbing the movie for the third time and catching all the wonderful moments I took for granted during the first and second, I started to realize that Ry Ry is the epitome of alone...forever. Except, unlike me, and many of my friends, he plays off being alone...forever much cooler.
What makes Ryan Gosling so alone...forever in this film? Well, it's definitely that his name is never mentioned and no one ever seems to bother asking him. Alone...forever. And well, he's a lonely loner who lives in a single bedroom apartment and drives around town (mostly) alone. Yes, he does befriend Carrie Mulligan and her son, but even after finding companionship, he abandons her to (what I guess...) live alone...forever.
But even as he's alone...forever, he keeps his cool. He talks only when necessary, remains completely un-emotional, and drives around town eating pie by himself at local diners (see above post).
So from now on, I'm going to pull a page from the Ryan-Gosling-In-Drive handbook and cool out on my constant need for alone...forever attention. I'm thinking I'll need to cool out on the Tweeting (only Tweeting when necessary). I'll need to detach my emotions from things I find unintentionally emotional (why didn't so-so text me back? did I really eat White Castle?). Maybe I'll even work up the courage to go grab a piece of pie by myself.
But finally, in the cool-style of Ryan Gosling, I will finally learn to accept my alone...forever-state-of-mind. I will confidently and successively learn to "grin and bear it." (while still posting both drunkenly/soberly and using parentheses whenever they are unnecessary).
