So I talked about my recent favourite movie, The Vow, (SPOILER ALERT!!!) last time, and yesterday I was reading passages from it out to a certain someone at night because I thought they made so much sense. I'm very much so a "in the moment" person - or so I'd like to think. I do sometimes worry too much about before and/or after the moments, the future, the past, the what ifs and how and whens. But it's a nice feeling to just let go and enjoy the moment. Be it a lingering kiss from your lover, a heartfelt hug, a cosy cuddle, a look you exchange, an inside joke, a giggle or laugh, or just night-time conversation. Each moment adds up to who we are. Interspersed through here you'll find some of the best lines from the movie. If you haven't seen it and want to - I'd like to warn you here again, that these may be considered spoilers!
"I have a theory too my theory is about moments, moments of impact. My theory is that these moments of impact, these flashes of high intensity that completely turn our lives upside down actually end up defining who we are. The thing is each one of us is the sum total of every moment that we’ve ever experienced with all the people we’ve ever known. And it’s these moments that become our history. Like our own personal greatest hits of memories that we play and replay in our minds over and over again."
"The moment of impact. The moment of impact proves potential for change. Has ripples effects far beyond what we can predict. Sending some particles crashing together. Making them closer than before. While sending others spinning off into great ventures. Landing them where you've never thought you've found them. That's the thing about moments like these. You can't, no matter how hard you try, controlling how it's gonna affect you. You just gotta let the colliding part goes where they may. And wait. For the next collision."
How true is that? I think completely and utterly true. It reminds me of Soren Kierkegaard's quote about life being lived forward but understood backwards. Each little moment creates an impression, leaves space for an acquired taste. Some tickle our fancy and leave us curious, others throw us very much off course. But it is these moments that not only mould us into who we are but also set us on the way or the path of our destiny. You may, or may not, have gauged from my blog that I'm a bit of a thinker. Not the philosophical kind, nah, more like... the inquisitive kind. Especially when it comes to life and the many human emotions involved and how everything comes together to make us who we are.
When I look back and think about my greatest hits in terms of memories, it probably starts off with my A's all throughout junior and middle school, all the goals, baskets, and points that I scored, teams I led to victory, home-runs I made, medals & awards I won for both sports and academics, my final year in A-levels, my 21st and 23rd birthdays, my graduation from university, falling in love, and the many other things in between I'll keep personal! When I'm stressed or just generally having a rough day, it's nice to look back at all that and smile. It reminds me how far I've come and of all the little things, which then seemed insignificant almost, or routine, that got me here. I now see their importance in the story of my life. And hopefully, I've got a long way to go. Many more chapters to right (and write), and lots more greatest hits to come!
But the REAL moments of impact are those that turn your life around, the one's that make you do a second take, or cause your jaw to drop, the one's that really matter. And I've had one or two of those too. And I'm so glad. Because of my one most recent moment of impact, I think I'm looking at making a lot more wonderful moments in the years to come :)
TBC... as and when my thought process continues ;)
The movie also made me think about love.. and foreverness, which shall also be addressed later. The actual vows were breathtakingly beautiful.
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