I love Scarlet O'Hara. From young ages until now, I just wanted to be like her. I can just remember thinking of how much I would love to have her life when I was a young girl.
Gone With The Wind is still my favorite movie of all time but my "wish to be Scarlet" is all gone.
Scarlet's life was a tragedy. Loving the wrong man, Loving the right man for the wrong reasons, loosing her parents, living in times of hard strife and pain, and then bearing the pain of the loss of child.
Sure, I dream of the life Scarlet dreamed of when she was at Twelve Oaks. Before the war, before the devastation of her plan for life.
With all her beauty, all her upbringing, and all her "status", she was still not above what pain there was to endure. Yet, she is still admired because she kept going. She took many wrong roads but she never gave up living life.
I will always love the movie but I am very thankful I grew up when I did, with whom I have loved and lost, of loving the man of my dreams (and having him love me even more), and working on a life lived full.
Oh, but if God ever saw fit to give me one of Scarlet's traits, I would take that 16 1/2 inch waist she was so upset about. LOL
