On the last day in the month of August, we start saying to ourselves: Wow, how time flies! Tomorow will already be the start of the BER months, then Christmas. Radio programs will start making a countdown. Then some eager beavers will start playing Christmas carols. “Give Love on Christmas Day” is my all-time favorite.
Now let’s talk about love. One thing certain in all of us, we never stop loving. (Caring is another thing). Till our last breath, we will love our family, won’t we? Romance is another thing. As it’s in a song, ‘when you’re in love, it’s the loveliest night of the year’. Me and you have experienced that sometime in our lives. The hopelessly romantics are in many turns.
I love going to movies with romantic themes. My second choice are action movies and even if you pay me, I won’t see a horror thriller. It makes me fall in love whenever I am in a cinema with those Nicholas Sparks movies.
People like me who are in their senior years still woo and make us ‘kilig’ when the drama is in its pitch, when the sweethearts in the celluloid screen meet and fall in love and make tight embrace and do the sweetest kiss ever. When they part and the girl loses her lover, we also shed some tears, just like in the movie “Ghost” where Patrick Swayze died and his spirit can’t leave behind the untended Demi Moore. Napkins, please.
One scene that till today lingers in my memory was the scene in the movie ‘Love is a Many Splendored Thing’ where the very handsome William Holden played Mark Elliot, an American reporter who fell in love with Jennifer Jones who played Han Suyin. The appointed time and place was set and Jennifer was waiting for William, but the latter never made it because he was killed in his days covering the Korean war. More napkins, please.
The heart is the first to be heard as the fetus is being developed in the pregnant mother’s womb. Even when you are asleep, while all the organs in the body stop functioning in the meanwhile, the heart never stops and still beats constantly. Same thing about love. We will never stop loving till the day that our kids will be closed forever.