love story

Have you watched the movie "Love Story", a 1970 film with the obvious topic, love?

It is a typical love story, but no matter how used the situation is, the story is still astonishing and could still make a person, especially me, shed a tear or two.  I was so sad after watching the movie.  You wouldn’t need spoilers because the very first sentence said in the story is "What would you say about a twenty-five years old who just died?" or something like that.  The novel has the exact same first sentence.  The guy is a rich jock who meets a poor smart girl, isn’t it typical then?  Then of course, the girl dies.

Happily, even though the film wasn’t really straight from the book, of all the films and books I’ve watched and read, this is the most loyal to the book.  Why?  Because the book and the film was made at the exact same year.

Both are easy to comprehend and the plot is very very simple.  It shows the struggle the two characters experience from family, poverty and sickness.  Amidst all the complications that they experience, they would always find assurance and of course, love, with each other.  What title then could possibly be better than "Love Story"?

As I said earlier, I was too sad after watching the movie.  I was watching the movie yesterday, Saturday afternoon, and alone.  I wasn’t sad because the female lead died, it is part of the sympathy you can give the characters, I was actually sad because, it is fictional.  It is here then that I rant about love and the absurdity that comes with it.  I’m too young to actually look for love.  I’m too busy for school, family and friends to bother with another crisis in my life.  But then, wouldn’t you always wish that someone perfect is out there?  Could this be just the effect of reading and watching too many romance storyline that I wish for the unrealistic?

About 4 years ago, I wished upon the stars a sign to meet the perfect person for me.  The sign is that the man destined to be for me will sing, dedicate or play this beloved song (that of course I wouldn’t mention) for me and when that certain person sing, dedicate or play this song, I would know that he is my soulmate, a match made from heaven, my destiny and my fate. 

Really, it is absurd.  I got the idea from the movie "Practical Magic" where Sandra Bullock’s character, a witch, made an incantation when she was young that a certain man whom she would love and marry would not die because she is a witch.  Every witches’ husband dies because the man is not of magic, but then a certain man for her wouldn’t.  She made a sign that the man would bear green and blue eyes and so forth which in the end she met and ended up loving.

Can that be true for me?