Sense & Sensibility was on Netflix and my Jane Austen heart soared. No second thoughts, no more wasting precious hours scrolling through its thousand titles to find something to watch - I found a "home" for the next hour and a half.
Take me back to the olden days, I say, and pressed play.
I don't recall how I got introduced into Jane Austen's novels, but I know it was Pride & Prejudice (as many others) that got me hooked. I mean hooked. From there on, dreams and daydreams consisted of lords and ladies, houses and tea parties, eggnogs, books read by the fires, walks and picnics at the park.
"Oh Lizzy, it is such a pleasure to run my own home!" was literally the line I wrote in my journal the day I moved out, independent in my own home, very much relating to Charlotte at the time.
"Your turn will come," says Dowager Grantham to Lady Edith Crawley, as she responds, "Will it?" My heart wretches as I recall saying those very lines myself when no prospect of love was near and I was nearly losing all hope.
The movie ends and I quickly exclaim to my unsuspecting husband, "I want my little cottage and be in the country side!" He smiles and turns to me, "I know."
For now, I'll enjoy my little English and olden days' trinkets, travel back and experience those days through books and movies ~ imagining myself bathing in the sun while I read on my porch, with a cup of tea and a plate of muffins by my side.
