Raymond’s Best Man Speech. < snip, snip >

I love Everybody Loves Raymond. Saw an episode ” Robert & Amy’s Wedding ” where everything in Robert’s ( ie. Raymond’s elder brother) wedding is going wrong and all the people involved are miserable. Eventually, the most beautiful day of the wedded couple’s lives turns into a comedy of errors. At which point, Raymond has to give his best man’s speech. In the speech he talks about the ” importance of editing in our lives.”. How it’s sometimes essential just to edit out all the wrong things and look at what’s right. He goes onto making fun of each family member’s quirks and the goodness they all have in them, celebrating Their special moments together. An episode worth watching out for.

Loved the sense it made. To cut out the bad memories in our life, being thankful for all that we are blessed with that makes us smile. It’s almost magical, how we can just edit out all our pain and misery just by repeatedly thinking about all that was good. Our brains are amazing in their capacity of shelving away episodes of our life that we just don’t think about. Sure! Not all nightmares can be ignored, but it’s just commonsense that mulling over what could have been done differently or what went wrong is Never going to help for the past can never be brought back. It’s not about acting like bad things haven’t happened. It’s about cherishing all the good that Has happened. After all, if not for the bad, how would we know when life was better ?! That’s where forgetting and forgiving comes from I guess, to give us the ability to move on. Isn’t it a wonderful option – to edit out all the bad moments from our past, choosing to live life a little more happily ?!