You Think Too Much! A life of thought…and some thoughts on life.

Finally saw the movie ‘Annie Hall’ from 1977 for the first time this weekend…full of wonderful moments and with Woody Allen in all his neurotic glory, combined with the scatterbrained charm of a young Diane Keaton.

I loved the ending…where Woody narrates a joke and compares it to relationships…and why we put up with everything that comes with the package.

Alvy Singer: [narrating] After that it got pretty late, and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I… I realized what a terrific person she was, and… and how much fun it was just knowing her; and I… I, I thought of that old joke, y’know, the, this… this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, “Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy; he thinks he’s a chicken.” And, uh, the doctor says, “Well, why don’t you turn him in?” The guy says, “I would, but I need the eggs.” Well, I guess that’s pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y’know, they’re totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and… but, uh, I guess we keep goin’ through it because, uh, most of us… need the eggs.

It’s clear that we all need love and to be appreciated, wanted and comforted. But humans have a knack of complicating the simplest of things, whatever the cause may be…biological, psychological, social, religious, etc…and when you put two people together, the chances of delighting and getting on each others nerves are guaranteed…so maybe we all put up with it because of the hope that the pros will overtake the cons in the long run. After all, as John Donne so eloquently put it…no man is an island. And maybe we just need the eggs.