Sometimes all you feel like doing on a rainy weekend afternoon is bathing yourself in melancholy. Apparently letting your brain slow down and bathe in sadness isn’t a bad thing, so please, let me help that happen if you’ve run out of netflix series. Here’s my favourite list of Netflix video to make that feeling of down prolong just a little…
The first time Ted meets his wife – How I met your Mother
If you’ve never seen How I met your Mother it’s worth watching the whole damn series just to get the context of this scene. After a day of Ted being told what future Ted would tell Ted what he should have done with his night it finishes with him confessing what future Ted really would have done with his night… bring on the tissues. The soundtrack, OMG.
Ellington – In a Lonely Place
I don’t think I’ve ever felt lonely while listening to this song but boy oh boy, bring on the feels. “This is where you doing something cute and I feel more in love with you”
JD Confesses his love to Elliot – Scrubs
Honestly there are so many scenes in Scrubs that will make you feel every emotion on this damn planet but they just aren’t worth watching out of context. So just go watch Scrubs and remember what having emotions feels like.
Coldplay – Paradise
This isn’t about the song (though lyrically it should move you at least once) no this is all about that little film clip. The elephant desperately looking for it’s people. I tear up every time I see that little trunk pop out to eat the snacks on the plane. We’ve all got our paradise where we belong, right?
Momentos – LG
It starts weird and a little slow, but let it play itself out – might be time to ring somebody and say sorry, lets reconnect. No idea what went wrong in this family or who decided to rekindle, the point is in one moment our humanity interrupts our issues from the past.
Ed Sheehan – Afire Love
Life. Death. Memories that disappear.
Night/Day – Heart for the House – Hillsong Church
This award winning video piece is long, and not from youtube (sorry). It follows a number of stories from around the world that start in a place of grief and end in a place of hope. From the largest city in the world to suburban Australia and an indian slum in between you realise we might not be so different after all… Tied together with poetry that when listened to might bring a tear or two.
“At some point this humanity slaps us all in the face and you find yourself flat on your back, reeling from whatever it is that life has thrown at you… time passes and the thing is, sometimes you’re sitting there, still reeling, years later. The sun has set on your life without you even realising the light was fading.”