The Secret Life of Bees

I have heard so much about this movie and book. I have been wanting to see the movie but Irene insisted that if I am going to watch the movie, I must first read the book. At first, I wasn't so sure about that. I didn't want to be disappointed like I was when I went to see "Twilight". The book was 50x better than the movie, and I wonder if I hadn't read the book would I have liked the movie more? So finally I did read the book and have to say it was horrible. I cried so much. Now when I say "horrible" I mean it in the sense that I loved it and that it was horrible that it moved me to tears. Me! The emotionally charged nut-job...I know...It's shocking, isn't it?

The book was great and I totally identified with Lily. Not in the sense that I have no mother, because I do, and she was/is PHENOMENAL but in the sense that a single event in life can haunt you for so long, totally shaping the person you become. I was so glad that she found her mother in the end but I have to say, I was disappointed, I wanted T. Ray to tell her that in actuality, it was him, who did it.

Oh well. Life is funny. I know that we agreed to everything we experience in this life before we came here. I know the life I have led has not always been joyous or the best one. I have seen things in life that I wish sometimes I hadn't...and there are things I have survived that still haunt me. But, who of us, cannot say the same thing? That is the beauty of humanity. We are all tried by fire, and are refined into something more beautiful than when we started out. Every person lives in their own colony of bees. We all have work to do and life just goes too quickly.