Friends, "The One With George Stephanopoulos"

I was watching a Friends rerun the other day and there were a few quotes that resonated with me.

Rachel: Now everything is just...
Phoebe: Floopy?
Rachel: Yeah.
Monica: Well, that's not just you. I mean, half the time we don't know what we're doing. You just have to hope that it will all come together and things will be... unfloopy.
Phoebe: Yeah, like that's a word.

How many people actually know what they're doing all the time? Maybe it's not as fun, knowing what you're doing. Maybe life is just a whole lot of stumbling around and sometimes you're lucky enough to stumble into something you're supposed to be doing, and you keep walking down that path and things eventually get "unfloopy." (And maybe not.)

Rachel: Okay, see you guys, what if we don’t get magic beans? What if all we got are beans?

Phoebe and Monica don't really have an answer. It's one of those unanswerable questions, really. 

 

And then, my very favorite part. The end, when Rachel tells the Visa card people she's got "magic beans." It's heartwarming and reassuring and it stuck with me. Maybe the trick is just to fake it until you make it: you believe in something and you act accordingly and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. And even if it doesn't...well, you did more than you thought you could. You did something, at least.

To embracing the floopy parts as best we can, not knowing what we're doing and hoping it'll come together, and naturally, magic beans.