I promised myself that I will not make a blog entry unless I’ve finished everything I’m supposed to finish (so that means… one school year?). But sometimes there are ideas that nag you enough to be a distraction to your day’s plans; you just had to let them out.
I couldn’t help but laugh at a warning given by an obviously concerned friend who disturbed my sleep last night (Joke! It was a welcome snooze break, my dear). I understand the concern for I, too, clearly see the signs. What makes me laugh is the idea that she thought that I was blind to them.
I remember when some friends and I watched the movie “Life is Beautiful”. The story starts funny and cute, with scenes that appeal to the romantic in you. And then it takes a bitter turn, and you end up with a feeling of a pinch in your heart. The story, from the way it unfolded, if we were to be cynical, clearly took us for a ride. The good thing was, we were aware of it.
Watching a movie (that is not a documentary – but even documentaries can sometimes be suspect, especially if done by some reporters we know) entails suspension of disbelief, if you were to enjoy every minute of it. When you enjoy it as it is, when you do not make too much expectations, you allow it to become beautiful. Awareness, though, of these things that you allow space for, saves you from complete devastation when the ending turns out bad. (But that Ai-ai movie with another group, well, that’s another disappointment… the movie, not the group, ha.)
Our tears were streaming down our cheeks while we were walking along a busy street and we were laughing at the same time, because we knew we looked silly but we just couldn’t stop ourselves from crying. Because we have let the movie touch our souls, it has become meaningful to us. The movie may have ended, it may have taken us for a ride, but it was a ride that we, also, consciously took. It may have earned money from us but we benefited as much, because we were fully aware that it was just a movie while savoring every minute of it. We friends surely bonded then and we will always have a story to look back to together, a moment to re-live and laugh about. I hope we get to keep this movie in our hearts for as long as we could but if this movie stops being meaningful to us, then there are other movies coming.
And that’s what makes life, in a way, beautiful.
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