I know I’m 26…but I think I’m finally growing up. And it wasn’t the fact that I work fulltime, feed my family (a hungry hubby and a hungry cat), handle the parents, handle the inlaws, deal with money issues and everything else… none of those made me realise that I have changed a lot since 3 years ago… but it was the simple fact that my taste in movies have changed…or expanded….

There was a time when I would refuse to watch a movie that was sad, there was no ifs, buts or whats about it….if the movie had a sad ending I wouldn’t watch it… Also if the male lead was ugly/too old/too chubby (not a la john abraham) I didn’t feel the need to watch it…eye candy in a movie was important… yet now I find myself watching movies I would’ve never watched before… and disliking movies which I would’ve loved before…

It all started this weekend when I passed my cold to my husband…

Now my husbands an active guy….even when the weather is bad and no one in their right mind wants to drive outside, he’s outside driving 30 minutes to go play hockey. And when the weather is warm, he plays hockey, tennis, badminton and golf…sometimes all in one week… who am I to complain, it keeps him in great shape and also keeps him from annoying me while I read

 So since he was sick on Sunday… we watched movies all day! Thus my epiphany on growing up! Take for example the movie Sabrina… the black and white one with Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. I was never able to finish that before even though I am a die hard Hepburn fan, why? Bogart is an old fart. Yet, I watched all of it on Sunday and actually thought Bogart was attractive, especially his dialogues.

Then the movie, Socha Na Tha. Cute movie, in my younger days, I probably would’ve loved it and rewatched it…but even though I thought it was cute, I found the whole premise and the charecters childish, and just silly…. Even though I found it overall an okay movie, I doubt I would watch it again.

Also my hubby finally got me to watch The Last Samurai. Hubby is a HUGE Tom Cruise fan, even though he denies it… but he is…. He’s one step away from jumping on couches declaring his love for him! I’ve never seen it, and hubby has been nagging me for years…finally watched it and loved it… it’s like I’m now more attracted to bittersweet, subtle movies than the romantic comedies that I always loved.

Finally… (can you believe I watched 5 movies this weekend!!) I watched 2 tamil movies, the Tamil versions of Saathiya (Alaipayuthey) and Roja (although same movie is dubbed, I cannot stand mouths not matching dialogues, I take subs over dubs anyday!). And god these movies touched me on a level it never did when I watched Saathiya, and Roja in Hindi. Both movies have a lot to do with love after marriage, and I saw both before I was married, so I guess my feelings of love have changed. I felt so much more when the charecters fought/separated/re-united… because although I loved my hubby for many years, the way I love him after living with him can’t even compare to my feelings before. Trust me, I was never the type to ruin my sleep for anyone, yet last night when he had a fever, I found myself waking up every 2 hours checking his temperature and if the blanket was on him properly. And there’s a line in the movie Alaipayuthey that explains exactly how I feel now, which is “I realized that love is not what I felt when I was chasing after you to get you, but searching for you when I thought I lost you” and I know I never would’ve felt that line as much as I do now… I guess this is why people talk about age and wisdom…There is something really amazing about growing up….