Smell any given Sunday, Al Pacino
August 16th, 2008 by JimNeed some weekend inspiration? Check out this peace by inches speech by Al Pacino, it’s worth watching:
Inch by inch, play by play, second by second as it all comes down to the moment.
Do tell, what can you relate to from the speech in your life to date? Dig deep and share!
Great speech!!! I found it both inspiring and disheartening. The last few weeks have been extremely difficult with my depression increasing because things have come up where I don’t want to face it especially crying. But, I will not die. I know inspite of everything I always get through. However, that does not necessarily change the pain and hopelessness of now. I’ve been feeling like each day is 1/4 inch by 1/4 inch and somedays smaller. But, overall there is movement, but it feels like trying to walk through mud with your head in a fog without a road map. However, I keep moving and ocassionally stopping because I’m tired. I need to find that speech within myself, not from the outside…feeling lost in an abyss trying to find it and, at times, not really believing that it is there.
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CC, if I may ask, what provokes the bouts of depression? Please feel free not answer if it is too personal. No offence meant.
Bridget Jones,
No offence taken, I’ve been open here on GSTF and my blog is all about my healing process. I’ve used to be this highly functioning social worker with one of the most difficult caseloads. My grandfather passed away, my main source of positive parenting, in 2001 and I slowly sank into a Major Depressive Episode. I went to therapy which I was in before with the same therapist (surprise…I’m back) and a ton of sadistic emotional, verbal, physical and sexual abuse repressed memories came flooding back…diagnosed with Post-traumatic stress syndrome. Medications, a hospitalization and four times a week therapy have been lifesavers. Also, GSTF and my blog have been really helpful. So, for me I am always depressed, but sometimes I’m more and sometimes I am less which usually has to do with what I am talking about in therapy. Feel free to ask more questions. When I started blogging, my goal was to be as open as possible for my own healing. Thanks for asking.
CC
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Thanks for sharing CC. And surely there’s no need for such formality in address, I’m ‘Bridget’ to everyone here
Well, almost everyone ha!
May I ask why you went into therapy the first time? And do you mind sharing about the repressed memories? I’d like to better understand what can cause depression in people. Also, what kind of thoughts go on in your head when you are feeling particularly depressed? And how do you snap out of it?
Have you tried anything else apart from therapy to overcome the depression? E.g., like being around infectiously (hmmm, does that word exist?? copyright Bridget Jones! copyright Bridget Jones!) happy people who can cheer you right out of the lows?
Bridget,
I went to therapy the first time because I was depressed, suicidal and quite emotional. My major in college was Human Services, counseling, so we basically did therapy on each other. I knew, I had many issues to deal with which is what brought me to therapy in the first place.
The repressed memories are of sadistic emotional, verbal, physical and sexual abuse. If you go to my blog, http://ClinicallyClueless.blogspot.com, the sidebar will give you more information. My blog is about my personal story of healing and also provides information on a variety of psychological issues. I wrote an article on depression that would answer your questions. This is the link, http://clinicallyclueless.blogspot.com/2008/05/major-depressive-disorderit-is-painful.html.
I am not pushing you to read my blog, but the questions that you asked are quite complicated and visiting the two areas suggested would give you a better understanding.
Thanks,
Clueless
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Happy upbeat people are sometimes good to be around, but sometimes, it can be draining and too over stimulating. But, blogging is good because I get to decide who and when to interact.
I’m so impressed with you.
THANK YOU for sharing this.
** Applause CC, applause**
CC, thanks for sharing. I started reading the side bar yesterday, then had to stop. It was too much. I don’t have words. I will read more later, and get back to you.
I will say this for now, you are one very courageous and resilient lady. You should celebrate yourself!
Thank you for the cheers everybody. It was requested that we dig deep…I just went in another direction of deep. Thank you for listening and for letting this place be somewhere that I can be honest and open.
Bridget,
Thanks for visiting my site…it is not a light blog that is why I come here. I get a bit of everything and it has quality. Thanks for saying that I have courage and am resilient…sometimes it doesn’t feel that way…but, maybe that is when I am the most courageous and resiliant.
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If Bridget can relate to the speech Jimbo? Hmmm. Check this out:
“We can stay here, get the sh!t kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light, out of hell, one inch at a time” - that’s what Miss Jones The Phoenix has done (except it was not inch by inch, more like giant steps at a time - Bridget doesn’t know how to do anything slowly ha!
She’s now fully back into the light. Applause please! 
“I made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I chased off everyone who’s ever loved me”. Oh man, don’t I know just a man like that ha!
”You’re going to see a guy who will go that edge for you. You’re gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this”. Out of the blue came someone who said such words to Bridget recently..
Jimbo, Al wrote that speech with Miss Jones in mind ha!
Glad you could relate to it BJ and thanks for sourcing the sections of the clip that reasonated with you the most.
Jimbo, Miss Jones is a perfectionist ha!
Oh and Jimbo, Chook asked me to let you know she’s not able to be around much these days, her time on the net is limited, she’s having to watch Junior closely,he went through more hassles. She’ll be back posting and commenting as soon as possible.
I belong to the Church of Al Pacino Movie Speeches.
Amen.
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LOL!
Bridget ain’t a big fan of Al Pacino Blue Collar, but is this is the kind of speeches he makes, she might just end up joining you for a service or two in the church ha!
my fave Pacino stuff is from scarface.
‘all I have in the world is my word and my balls and I don’t break them for nobody’
Although my fave ever speech is this one
Hold your ground! Hold your ground!
Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers,
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me.
A day may come when the courage of men fails,
when we forsake our friends
and break all bonds of fellowship,
but it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields,
when the age of men comes crashing down,
but it is not this day!
This day we fight!!
By all that you hold dear on this good Earth,
I bid you stand, Men of the West!!!
absolutely top drawer!!
or this one from casino
I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do. For instance tomorrow morning ill get up nice and early, take a walk down over to the bank and… walk in and see and uh… if you don’t have my money for me, I’ll… crack your f*****n’ head wide-open in front of everybody in the bank. And just about the time that I’m comin’ out of jail, hopefully, you’ll be coming out of your coma. And guess what? I’ll split your f******n’ head open again. ‘Cause I’m fuckin’ stupid. I don’t give a fuck about jail. That’s my business. That’s what I do.
Bridget likes the Hold the Ground speech! It feels almost a bit like the speeches in Shakespeare ha!
I’ve never been able to watch Al Pacino movie in full I think. I find them a bit too violent, or sometimes too ’slow’. Does that make sense?
You missed a few ****’s out there Urban!
apologies- a momentary lapse in concentration- feel free to edit - sorry!!
It’s f***** OK!
they can be violent a lot of the time. you don’t strike me as the type of person who would watch violent films. Am I right?
I reckon you’d watch loads of gerrard depardieu! just tell me please that you don’t like Hugh Grant. He’s more wooden than a large piece of wood coverede in wood in a wooden box in some woods just outside wood city, woodsville.
Ohlala! Bridget likes Hugh Grant loads!! He’s soooooo romantic in his movies (well, except in MY movie of course where he turns out to be a jerk ha!
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Correct, I don’t like violent movies (except Gladiator, but that’s not ‘violent’, it’s epic. And yes I of course like French movies, and Gerard Depardieu is one of the best French actors. A bit goofy but very good. There’s Thierry l’Hermitte too I like but he can be boring at times duh.
Oh, and Hugh Grant is not wooden!
sorry Bridget but I was told that when he is on set they have hugh grant hooled up to a heart monitor to check he is actually alive when acting!! The only film I thought he was good in was the unauthorizes one he shot with divine brown on rodeo drive