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Groundhog Day

Yes, I realise I’m a couple of days late - Groundhog Day was on the 2nd of February.

As Punxsutawney Phil, the Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators proclaimed we’ll have six more weeks of winter it got me to thinking about how much I love the film.

I have a weird semi-obsession with Bill Murray films that has lasted almost my entire life. I think it started with the original Ghostbusters film and has just snowballed from there. I can’t actually think of any films he’s in that I dislike (I’m not counting the Garfield films, so there!), which is unusual for me.

Anyway, got off on a bit of a tangent there - back to Groundhog Day!

I like the fact that Phil Connors doesn’t stop himself from trying new things (OK he has a seemingly endless amount of days to do this in, but you get my point!) or meeting new people.

I also think it’s interesting to see how one person can change his attitude and totally transform his life. To go from being a very negative and dour person to one that can inspire everyone around him is a great thing to watch on screen.

But the thing that I love most about the film though is the message that’s conveyed throughout the film, which is that we should look at every day as a fresh start - forget about what happened yesterday and go into every day as though it was the first day of your life. It’s a good way to go about things as instead of letting trivial incidents fester in your mind, you force yourself to forget about them almost instantly.

I’d recommend that you do this yourself - no matter what has happened yesterday, today is a brand new day full of opportunity and promise.

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