Angelina Jolie Shiseido

This thread is the best Brangelina one yet — most people on here are posting thoughtfully, thought-provokingly, and discussing intelligently. I won’t crucify you Rudedog, because I kind of agree this won’t last forever, but I don’t mind that. If it works for them for right now, that’s cool. When it’s run its course, as all but very, very few relationships do, then they will split up. Too many people stay together even after the relationship is over, so I agree with Poison Cherry in #199 and #207, too. Live in the moment, and who does that better than Angelina Jolie? I don’t believe she has changed, as the poster in #134 says also. She is still wild and untamed, just because she has children only makes her a bit less reckless, but Brad likes her for her unpredictability as much as her beauty. She is strong, tough, and bold. I love that about her, and she didn’t turn into a meek wallflower just by adopting Maddox. She has always had lots of love to give, and her emotions have always been raw. THat is why she is such a brilliant actress — three GOlden Globes and an Oscar. It took Jennifer Aniston 11 years of playing the same character before she could get an Emmy. Brad is done with Miss Boring, and wants the adventure and fun and expressiveness and impulsiveness of Angelina. If he starts to yearn for boring again, and want more stability, or she feels stifled, the relationship will split apart. That could happen tomorrow, or two years from now, or ten. But predicting its demise is a pretty safe bet, as it is with any relationship. Marriages have 50% divorce rate, and how many relationships do you go through before you marry? Predicting that a relationship will end is more likely to make you right than predicting it will last forever. For every Paul Newman and JOanne Woodward there are thousands of splits. But for now, they are very good together, and I hope Angie never changes.

# 214 | crystal | April 3, 2006 05:48 PMYou are right I think, to point out that the lives of the rich and famous actors/actresses are different. You say that Angie’s (and in effect all of us) past will come back to haunt us. This suggests that we cannot escape the horrors of our past. I truly believe that our past can come back to inform us, to guide us, to enrich us, if we can learn from our past. To learn from our mistakes requires HONESTY, otherwise we (1) fail to take responsibiliyt for our part of the mistakes will end up blaming someone else for what should be our responsibility or (2) deny the pain and the harm that others have caused us. We can learn the skills which our caretakers may not have taught us. Some of us may not be taught good simple social skills in childhood, we can learn. Some of us are not taught good healthy boundary setting by our parents (those who constantly interfere in our lives commenting, comparing and criticising the way we look, the we we perform at school, and so on), well, we CAN LEARN. Our past informs us, allows us to empathise and sympathise. When we take responsibility for our mistakes possibly hurting ourselves and others, and forgive ourselves for making them, we learn to forgive others for making mistakes which hurt us. Our past does not have to haunt us, but can enrich our view of the world. We can grow and are not doomed, by destiny or fate or our past to repeat mistakes. This is simply a fact. I am truly a better person now, at 40+ then when I was at 20. But I’m truly glad for the pain I did go through in my childhood and young adult hood and truly am sorry for the pain I caused to some people especially in my young adulthood. But all this pain has allowed me to understand others better, to be better able to empathise and show compassion. There is a lovely children’s book about Pandora and how her parents had locked away in the box all tears, all sadness, all pain, all fear. They wanted her only to be happy. But Pandora was rather strange because she could not empathise or sympathise or be compassionate. Pandora would laugh when a child fell down. It seemed funny to her because she could not understand pain herself. She laughed when another child was afraid because she could not understand fear. She did not have a sense of wonder because she had no perspective to understand beautiful from ugly, good from bad. She was in a sense and for want of a better word - " emotionally retarded". Then one day, she discovered the box and opened it.. then she could feel real happiness because she could feel sadness and she could wonder at the beautiful and sublime because she understood what was ugly and petty.

No more ani-charity workers…Please!!! Go away trolls!!!