Saturday, February 16, 2008
the other day, i was watching LOTR 3: Return of the King... a very inspiring movie i must say... look past the battle scenes, all the action, lies a lot of moral values... i find it a little surprising for me to be saying this as i am a action movie fanatic... to put it short, i couldn't care less bout the messages inside the movie... but yet, i felt touched, inspired and a whole load of other stuff... i think the most brave character in the movie has to be Sam... he, is what i define a real TRUE friend... he stuck with Frodo no matter what, even when he was no longer trusted by Frodo... it's very difficult to find friends like that anymore... take a look around you... i admit, i do have friends like that but they are hardly a handful... sometimes, when you start to believe in someone, you start to trust, you start to love them, they do something beyond your trusting limit... they don't necessarily betray you, but they somehow just makes you doubt your friendship... they make you doubt your effort to keep that particular friendship alive... i love all my friends, and so far none has actually done this to me... i'm truly grateful... there were sometimes dumbfounded by some of their actions, but i believe in them that they have their reasons to do it... and so far never has my believe been broken...
considering the circumstances, things don't naturally go our way sometimes... especially when we do something with sincerity... all i want to do sometimes is to honestly offer my assistance and help... and yet, i sometimes *note: SOMETIMES* still get the i-don't-trust-you-and-why-you're-helping-me look... of course it hurts being given that look, but i still respect that decision... i let it go no matter how much the situation requires assistance... how dire the situation may be... it's pointless to force someone to accept your assistance if he/she doesn't want you to help... hoping for the best is the most you can do...
speaking of hope... did you ever wonder what keeps us going day after day after day...? how we make it through the roughest days...? how we manage to overcome the most problematic problems...? how we find the strength to wake up in the morning knowing very well the day might not be as joyful as it should be...? hope... hope is what keeps us going... yes... we all hope for something regardless of what it is... we may not necessarily put it in our minds like "i hope today will...."... hope actually is that tiny glimmer of light in the darkest, never ending tunnel... why...? simply because it indicates that there is an exit... even though it seems very far away... we still strive for it, sometimes knowing very well we may not make it out alive, but yet, we still cling on to it...
but hoping alone will not bring us anything if no course of action is taken right...? i agree 100 percent... but in certain things, actions brings us nothing in return too... example (this may not necessarily be the most perfect example); take love... you may love someone with your entire heart, you entire soul... you are willing to die for him/her... but how much action you take will prove worthless if he/she does not love you in return... all those cliched love movies that portray that if you struggle to prove your love to him/her, he/she will fall in love with you too... but this is not necessarily true... at most, they will just feel touched by your actions and nothing more... they don't love you any more... but we still fight for it... why...? because of hope... we don't necessarily hope for them to love us in return, but simply, we just hope for them to be touched by love... i've heard this may times before, 'loving someone is letting them go'... it is indeed a very true quote... loving someone is hoping that they will remain happy, contented even if they are NOT with you, even if every time you see they laughing, cuddling, hugging and kissing someone which is not you, you literally die inside; you still manage to bring out a smile because your love one is happy, even if he/she is not with you... you shed tears of joy and pain... joy because he/she is happy and pain because you are not the one being loved... and yet, you still wake up every day, hoping that a miracle might save you...
hoping is tied very closely to love... regardless of whether you agree or not, this is my believe... even i hope for love... i have felt love before, and although things didn't go my way, i still hope for the best.. not just for myself but for her... sometimes we hope for love so, so much, it becomes an illusion... an illusion of the heart... we tell ourselves we are meant for him/her even though we know fairly well it's never going to happen... but the dreams *literally dreaming* of being with him/her is enough to put a smile on our faces, give us strength to get through the toughest days... it may not be real, but thats the power of hope and love...
my dad once said, "nothing in this world is certain..." but i know one thing is for sure... lets us all be given hope, and hope in return will give us joy, comfort and love even if it's just an illusion...
