Sometimes we are confused by life. And sometimes keeping our fingers crossed is not a good idea. There’s no easy formula.. really.
Maybe one of the most confusing of all confusions is knowing the right person for you. Indeed, having him/her beside you at the right time is no easy way.
Sometimes, you love but that person won’t love you back. Sometimes it’s the other way around. What makes it more mixed up is when you are already loved by the person you love and you’re starting to love the one who loves you. So twisted… There are also times when love is wanting…when you mistake love for something like infatuation…
Sometimes we search too far only to find out that the right person is just few steps away (can be your bestfriend, enemy, neighbor, or a friend of a friend).
Sometimes we are tricked by life. Sometimes we are tricked by ourselves...of our greed...of our fear to love...
I've read a counseling book penned by a renowned psychologist (unfortunately, I can’t recall his name at this very moment). One short story revolved around a 56-year-old man. He was divorced twice and was separated thrice. The first few years of his first marriage were ecstatic….Then came his daughter.
He felt that the child has entirely captured his wife’s affection…because of this, the marriage was on the rocks for the next years. So the man find ways to divorce his wife. He left his first wife to marry a younger one. Their relationship went on for about four years. Then, he again filed a divorce. The third marriage came too soon and ended too quickly. It took him about 8 long years to realize that he has already found the one true love he has been looking for in the person of his first wife unfortunately, he had let it slipped away. No way can he put the pieces back because his former spouse was already dead.
Sometimes holding on is the answer. Sometimes letting go…
Maybe one of the most confusing of all confusions is knowing the right person for you. Indeed, having him/her beside you at the right time is no easy way.
Sometimes, you love but that person won’t love you back. Sometimes it’s the other way around. What makes it more mixed up is when you are already loved by the person you love and you’re starting to love the one who loves you. So twisted… There are also times when love is wanting…when you mistake love for something like infatuation…
Sometimes we search too far only to find out that the right person is just few steps away (can be your bestfriend, enemy, neighbor, or a friend of a friend).
Sometimes we are tricked by life. Sometimes we are tricked by ourselves...of our greed...of our fear to love...
I've read a counseling book penned by a renowned psychologist (unfortunately, I can’t recall his name at this very moment). One short story revolved around a 56-year-old man. He was divorced twice and was separated thrice. The first few years of his first marriage were ecstatic….Then came his daughter.
He felt that the child has entirely captured his wife’s affection…because of this, the marriage was on the rocks for the next years. So the man find ways to divorce his wife. He left his first wife to marry a younger one. Their relationship went on for about four years. Then, he again filed a divorce. The third marriage came too soon and ended too quickly. It took him about 8 long years to realize that he has already found the one true love he has been looking for in the person of his first wife unfortunately, he had let it slipped away. No way can he put the pieces back because his former spouse was already dead.
Sometimes holding on is the answer. Sometimes letting go…
In the movie Serendipity, the couple reunite years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together. They have let destiny bring them as one guided by the constellation Cassiopeia.
In Notting Hill, the essence is sacrifice and giving up something…You give up fame, power for the sake of love.. It’s the act of being broken that make’s it special. The story was all about the world’s most famous movie star and a simple travel bookstore owner, who has a non-existent love life. For both, something or someone seems to be missing. And when both paths unexpectedly cross, love is the last thing on their mind. The couple comes to face the ultimate question: Can two people fall in love with the whole world watching?
The Perfect Catch is all about a schoolteacher who has been obsessed with the Boston Red Sox for 23 years. Then he fell in love with Drew, a dynamo career woman. But the 2004 baseball season shaked their relationship to the breaking point. Loving really, is also loving his/her ways…I can still remember Drew’s line: “Those things you like, I feel them too – for you!” Sports and work don’t love you back. People do.
Stepford Wives made me understand why there are imperfections. What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created a high-tech dreadful little town in modern milieu. They thought it’s the best idea. But were they accurate? Being perfect is downright BORING.
This world is not a product of make-believe but reality. It’s not a movie where we can have a number of cuts to perfect the scene. It’s not a film where we can delete the mediocre takes and pause when we want to linger on a scene…
We can only have flashback and flashforward in our mind. Albeit, we can all relate.
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