She’s Inspired By The Other She Who’s Inspiring!

Julie and Julia. These two women don’t just share a similar name. They are intimately connected by one deep passion too, despite separated by space and time.

Julie is at a crossroad in her life. Not someone who has ever completed something in her life before, she gamely takes up the suggestion of her husband to start a blog. After a few rounds of to-and-fro on what to write, she decides to challenge herself to blog about cooking. Not just ordinary cooking where she does when she has time or the mood to, but to finish cooking 52 recipes by the famous celebrity chef Julia Child in 365 days.

What does this challenge mean?

This means she has to cook everyday, by hook or by crook, be it rain or shine, in sickness or in health. In order to achieve this, she’ll be putting her full-time job and her marriage at risk, according to her, all because of one person’s inspiration.

Meet Julie Powell (Amy Adams) and Julia Child (Merryl Streep) in the movie Julie and Julia. Julie is so inspired by Julia that she not only throws herself such a huge challenge, informs the whole cyber world about it – thereby putting herself at a bigger risk if she calls it quits half-way – she eventually manages accomplish this feat, despite some hiccups and a marriage crisis in the process.

Have you found yourself in a similar situation before? I’m sure all of us would, at one time or other, feel lost in life. It seems as if nothing matters anymore, and we feel a huge sense of defeat weighing on us, pinning us to the ground. Our goals are either blurred, or they are still non-existent.

We stand at a cross road, and we can’t decide which way to go. For others, they are just standing on a road which either leads to nowhere or they are facing a dead end.

At times like this, how we wish we can have someone walk to us, and lead us to the light. To tell us that we aren’t alone. To encourage us and let us feel that we are still important. He/she doesn’t have to be exactly a friend, or someone we have met.

Like Julie and Julia. One has never met the other, but through Julia’s works, Julie feels immensely inspired. It feels great to be able to inspire someone. And it’s also a wonderful uplifting feeling to be so greatly inspired by someone too. It’s like a huge dose of confidence that propels you to take immediate action. This motivation is so stimulating that you simply cannot not take action and do it.

I have experienced such inspirations before. To me, it is a one-of-a-kind moment. It takes my breath away, leaving me so rejuvenated that unless I do something right away, the energy will over-accumulate and drown me in it.

It is a moment of truth, of empowerment, or realisation, of discovery and of hope. Endless hope.

And when you have the fortune to be on the other side, you’ll feel equally blessed too - to be able to inspire someone who might still be searching for their life’s direction if not for something you’ve said or done.

Was there such a moment in your life before? How was it like to you?