"When You Love Someone"

Just finished watching one of my all-time favorite movies, "The Notebook" and I am very much inspired to talk about love.

Every time I see the movie, I cry... I am a sensitive person, I admit, I cry a lot whenever I hear or see something that touches my heart. But this is somewhat different. I usually stop crying after seeing a movie or a third time, but in this case, I have seen it literally more than ten times, and still feel as if it's the first time I get to watch it. Not just because the movie is sad, but it is also because of its meaning, the classical sweetness of a movie that we do not get to often these days. It eases my mind, but at the same time gives me more reasons to look for my own "happily ever after.".

Everything in the movie seems unrealistic, and maybe it is, but no matter how "fake" or "real" it might seem to you, it teaches us many things along the way.

But walk with me.

"It was an improbable romance. He was a country boy. She was from the city. She had the world at her feet, while he didn't have two dimes to rub together."

The storyline of this movie is old, I agree... Nicholas Sparks writes beautiful romances, and most of them are so sweet, but so sad. That's his expertise, so nothing more to talk about it.

The movie, on the other hand, give me this excitements and happy feelings every time. I admire all the love that's there. Love found, love lost, love found again, and the more time it takes, the better it feels at the end, simply because nothing worth having comes easily.

It talks about the love that's meant to be, the love that no matter what two people go through in their lives, at the end, they eventually find each other.

Noah is such an amazing character. The best thing I like about him is his ability to listen. He listens to everything Allie has to say, from what she enjoys doing for herself, to everything she wants her dream house to have. He also keeps his promises well. Even though they were separated for a long period of time, he still believed that if he fulfill his promises, she would eventually come back to him. And she did. He has a strong faith and belief in what he is capable of doing, the abilities that not everyone has.

Allie, on the other hand, is the sweet girl who has been living a good life for most of her life. She loves with all her heart but also has short temper. However, she truly cares for everyone around her, and that's probably why everything happens the way it does. She did not want to go against anyone else's will, she just wanted to make everyone happy, and ended up hurting herself. But she has that special ability to appreciate what she has, unlike most of us, always want things we cannot have. She did not like the fact that Noah was away, but she still gathered the strength to moved on. And even though everything and everyone reminded her of Noah, her heart was still open for whatever comes next. She found an interesting person who truly loves her to give her heart to, and so she did. She did everything according to her heart, and that's why she is such a sincere person. Sincere but easily hurt.

Those two souls belong together. Every time they see or think of each other, their souls wake their hearts up, over and over again. To them, love never gets old because they were made for each other.

Do you believe that love like this do exist?

I do! To be honest I was much in doubt about it for the longest time. I mean, I believe in happily ever after, but I really am not into unrealistic fairytale. What I can tell you is that I actually got a chance see a similar situation for myself. It was one of the best true stories I had heard, and it still stays with me until today. Because of it I was inspired to believe that one day, that special happiness will be mine to keep. Maybe not in such a dramatic and cinematic way, but it will be the special love I have waited for all my life. I'm looking forward to the day... but at the same time I am living and enjoying what I have, before anything is gone.

P/S: If you have not had a chance to actually watch the movie, here are some of my favorite lines.


Young Noah: Would you just stay with me? 
Young Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fightin' 
Young Noah: Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing. 
Young Allie: So what? 
Young Noah: So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out. 
Young Allie: What easy way? There is no easy way, no matter what I do, somebody gets hurt.
Young Noah: Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants? Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want? What do you WANT? 




Young Noah: If you're a bird I'm a bird.




Noah: I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough. 




Noah: That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is.




Noah: Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They're shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they're gone. 




Have a good night!