Day 213: Paris Je Taime

I heard a story about love yesterday that I can't get off my mind... The story was about a married couple. The husband was cheating on the wife and he tells her he wants a divorce. The wife responds by giving him a few conditions... she doesn't want to tell their child for another month due to the child's school graduation in a month. Another one of her conditions is that everyday, for the next month, her husband has to carry her out of the bedroom to the front door. So, the husband agrees and for the next month he carries his wife to the door. The first few days, it feels a bit weird. Then a few days later, he realizes how much weight she's lost and how light she's gotten. Then, he begins to recognize her smell and as the days go by, carrying her becomes a normal ritual as he slowly begins to realize the intimacy they used to have. At the end of the month, he changes his mind about the divorce realizing that he does love his wife. He breaks it off with his mistress and goes home to tell his wife only to find that she has died from the cancer, which she had been fighting for so long.

The movie I watched was called "Pairs Je Taime" it was a series of 18 short love stories. They were each about a different kind of love in our lives. The one thing I remember from the movie was a part that expressed that "if you act like you're in love, you're bound to fall in love again."

I think that, after a while, at a certain point in a relationship, it can become stale and boring, but if we can always try to remember and focus on the what brought us together, we'll never grow apart.

I bring up the subject of love because I sit here, in the middle of a messy living room with packed and unpacked bags on the floor, knowing that my dad will be leaving again for a few days in the morning... I bring up the subject of love because what I feel for my dad and what my mom feels for my dad is love with its different faces. No matter what kind of relationship, love takes effort, sincerity, and compassion on both sides. At the end of the day, love is love. If you do it right, it doesn't matter if it's towards your wife, husband, sibling, parent, neighbor, or pet. The only true way to love is to show love in every way you know or think possible.

Tip of the Day: Try to recognize specific things in your relationships that work and try to realize when you need to put them into action.

"It doesn't matter if you say you love someone. What you feel inside only matters to you. It's what you do to the ones you love that counts." "The Last Kiss" the movie