Those mean reds!

I have always had a thing for old movies. There is just something about the old-time glamor of the sixties that still appeals - even in the 21st century!

A few days ago I revisited an old favorite of mine: Breakfast at Tiffany's. Hollywood has immortalised the opening scene of Holly Golightly, a young woman in evening atire and huge sunglasses, standing in front of Tiffany's, sipping a foam take-away cup of coffee and eating a croissant (or at least I think it's a croissant). Later we learn that Holly Golightly (portrayed by the stylish Audrey Hepburn) flees to Tiffany's whenever she experiences "those mean reds," when life becomes to much for her:

                   Holly:“You know those days when you get the mean reds?” ... The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling? …Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany’s. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it. Nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that’d make me feel like Tiffany’s, then — then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name!”

 

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I'm having one of those days right now, the mean reds. I have been having them since I was eleven, when I started getting insomnia or started hyperventilating or even getting bouts of mini panic-attacks worrying about what will become of me one day. My mean reds are always about that...and right now, I wish that I had a place like Tiffany's that I could run to...