It’s been a while since my last update at this blog. Been busy or been lazy is not enough to be a valid excuse. On my weekend afternoon, watching Dan In Real Life makes no excuse.
Dan is a widower with three teenage daughters. He tried to keep the normality of life and it was not easy. One day he brought three girls to a family gathering. One misty morning, he met a hottie in a bookstore. He felt finally connected back to life. Just she turned out to be his future sister-in-law. Sometimes, we are glad that we still have sanity, while other times we suffer more from that. He tried to escape from his own feelings. He did but didn’t get too far. Neither did the hottie. Finally, it became clear that it is quite impossible to escape from true love.
I know Steve Carell from 40-Year-Old Virgin. He was probably not but he did a good job to make you believe he was. But he is more convincing in this movie considering his acting skills and outlook. Juliette Binoche…I don’t know how to express my admiration to her. She is stunning in big boxbuster and also in normal story setting. Just a natural beauty.
These two people finally came together because…I am going to put these words as separate paragraph so we can all remember for longer.
Love is not just feelings. It is an ability.
The other day in a cab, PF said one is supposed to work to live, not the other way around, live to work. Now I want to add one more line. We live to love. We may not be perfect. No one is ultimately content with who he is. We are all on the way of a self-torturing quest to discover more about ourselves and meanwhile to struggle with accepting the fact and hopefully to strive to improve for better. God knows how hard it is so we are given a natural ability to love. We try to find our true love, being loved and to love, to find someone to be with.
So how does love feel like? It is different. You know that feeling in your heart. When your heart is just pounding like it is outside your ribs. Exposed and vulnerable, wonderful and awful, heartsick and alive, all at the same time. Infatuation is not true love. Sexual attraction is not true love. Is it frustrating that you cannot be with this person? Is it something that is keeping you apart? Or something about this person you connect with? And whenever you are near this person, you don’t know what to say and you say everything that’s in your mind and in your heart. And you know if you could just be together, that this person will help you become the best possible version of yourself.
We live to love. This is my belief. I believe in loving and being loved. Hold on to it. Firmly.
