What is a Bridget Moment?

My name is Bridget Cricket. I know what you're thinking... who names their child Bridget with a last name like Cricket? I suppose my mother foresaw in my future fame. Perhaps a child actor on Broadway, or winning first place at a beauty pageant, or getting cast in a major blockbuster film. So what mother in her right mind would want her daughter to sign autographs with the name of Jane Smith? Obviously you'd want something with a kick. Hence... Bridget Cricket. But as most parents realize, when their child turns 28 and they're not well known, not in a relationship, not in a job they enjoy, that perhaps naming their child with an absurd name didn't really help them or anyone else for that matter. But I've come to accept the fact that my name is Bridget Cricket and I know that the friends I do have, though they claim to laugh with me even though they're laughing at me, do love me.

When I was 24 a movie was coming out called Bridget Jones. Obviously, I felt some affinity towards the movie because my name was the name of the protagonist. So I went and as I watched the movie I found myself not feeling alone in the world of dating, engaged, or married couples. I found a character that I could resonate with. For on the screen Bridget Jones, a journalist, was looked down upon for being single, she said the wrong things always at the wrong time, and managed to have her ass shown on television. That hasn't happened to me, but its nice to know that people do make fools of themselves and can still live to tell the tale.

Needless to say the movie hit home and I walked out of the theatre feeling like I'd found a friend that understood my plight of what it was like to be a woman single at 28 who sometimes makes a fool of herself. So now... whenever I feel like a complete idiot or some sort of fungus that hides underneath a rock at the bottom of the ocean I think "Bridget knows how I'm feeling. I am having... a Bridget Moment.