I took advantage of the fact that my roommate brings home ten tons of free movies from the company he works for, and watched Vanilla Sky tonight. It honestly made me realize a few things about myself and about life in general.

1. Vanity is important to people, in some way, shape or form. Our bodies are taken for granted and there are things about them we greatly appreciate and depend on for our confidence. I get confidence from the fact that I can sing. And I greatly appreciate my hearing, which is something that I took a bit for granted until the past few days when -- due to my own damn fault, of course -- I thought there was a chance that I'd damaged it beyond full recovery (it's slowly returning to normal, thankfully) which is something that seriously worried me. For someone to lose their looks, I could see how it would dramatically alter their life to the point of shattering it. Other factors can lead to similar types of descent into depression, such as insecurities leading someone to find other methods of comfort like food or alcohol.

2. The mind is a very powerful thing, and we really don't understand that much about it. I can easily sit here in my stable mentality and say that I don't understand how people can claim multiple personalities or other mental conditions, but I don't know what it's like. My reality is a reality that only I experience and other people experience their own. They deal with conditions that I hopefully never will, and I can't possibly imagine what they are like -- nor can they imagine what it's like for me.

By the way, the movie's ending didn't quite sit right with me. It reminded me a bit too much of A.I.'s ending, and I felt like it was kind of a cop-out. But the soundtrack kicked ass.