Rosebud...

 Last night I watched Citizen Kane as the "something I've never done" for the day.  When questioned about what I knew about the movie I responded with "Let's just say I could be on the jury".  It was exciting to see something so known to others and yet such a mystery to me.  I squeezed it in before midnight and was simply too exhausted to write.  I can see why it's a classic.  The cinematography was quite beautiful...yeah, yeah, yeah.  I was just about to write a critique of a movie that kids have been studying at film schools and universities for decades.  I just stopped myself, thank goodness. 
     If you know me, you know the meaning I take from symbols, from words spoken as well as from the ones left unspoken and from the lessons life presents to us.  Kane had quite a few.  I also have an obsession with the synchronicity of things so the movie satisfied that craving as well.  A few of the themes from the film were quite relevant to me lately.
     I thought about how we get hung up on that one thing from our past and never really seem to bounce back from it.  We spend our lives denying it,  acknowledging  it and then recovering from it.  Kane had everything.  Everything.  Yet, he could not have the one thing he needed most.  In our quest to attain and achieve we must be careful what it is we are truly searching for.  Some tend to get caught up with filling the void and tend to lose sight of the precious gifts right in front of them.  Always reaching for the next distraction we fail to grasp the whole real truth right in front of us.  We live in regret from the past, worry about the future and forget to see today.  I just started to veer off into New Age territory so on that note I'll just say...I really like the movie.