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Love Actually....is all around.... Wow I love Christmas break...today was well spent sitting around watching movies (oh...and going to our ritualistic Monday sushi hour at NAAN). The last movie of the day was Love Actually, and although I've already seen it, Kathryn forced me to watch it again because I apparently didn't appreciate it enough the first time (it ends up that she's right and I now absolutely adore the movie). The movie is just so...beautiful. I hold it dear to my heart because it incorporates 2 things that I consider to be the most heart-warming and wonderful things in life...love and Christmas. You laugh, but Christmas is most definitely the best time of the year. I was looking back to my entry that I wrote about this time last year where I was talking about how everyone should feel loved on Christmas and that not even the scum of the earth should be alone. It's true...I honestly believe that miracles happen in the holiday season. In some way I'd like to believe that people are more open to caring about others around this time of year. Anyways...wonderful day overall, yet after watching Love Actually and giving myself some time to reflect over everything I happen to be feeling at the moment, I sometimes wonder what it'd be like to not be me. To not be such a helpless hopeless romantic. To not fall so fast and care so much. To not be so obliviously optimistic about everything. But I guess I'll never know, because as much as it ends up hurting sometimes...I'd never change who I am. On that note...here are some quotes from Love Actually (if you haven't seen it, please go rent it...especially now being the holiday season...it'll definitely warm your heart....oh yeah...and Hugh Grant is the new love of my life lol): Prime Minister: Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around... Sam: Let us go get the shit kicked out of us by love. Daniel: Tell her that you love her. You've got nothing to lose, and you'll always regret it if you don't. Karl: Life is full of interruptions and complications Billy Mack: Christmas is a time for people with someone they love in their lives. (have I mentioned that I want to marry Hugh Grant yet?) |