My northern exposure

Lately I have picked up the habit of watching one episode of Northern Exposure before I go to bed. Random life. It seems as if it were the best moment in my life to do so. Such a perfect show. Each episode amazes me with its intelligent screenplay. Each one leaves me with a message. And with a very calm feeling. I realize, subtly, how bizarre life is. How simple it is and, at the same time, how complicated we sometimes make it look, how complicatedly sometimes it makes us experience it.

Today's episode condensed my thoughts on life quite succinctly. Today's, yesterday's and probably tomorrow's too.

Chris Stevens, the best radioman in the history of history, aired to all his cicely hearers, and to us: "we all carry so much pain in our hearts: love and pain and beauty, they all seem to go together, like one little tidy confusing package...it is a messy business life, it is hard to figure, it is full of surprises, and some good and some bad, anyway...".

Those sentences could as well summarize the spirit of the show.

And probably could talk about my most inner spirit too. Random that it happened today. When I most needed to be told there is no simple thing that three words could not try to not grasp.

The beauty of the show, with all the pain and the love that surrounds me and that comes from my inside, all together, just make sense when expressed, when heard.

I guess I am just trying to say that from time to time it is nice to be reminded of how hard but sweet life can taste. May it be in the shape of a tv-show, may it be in the leaning towards cheesy lines of one of its characters. It is nice to feel the warmth of the simple lines of an obscure truth.