Real Life

I just watched Dan In Real Life. If you haven’t seen this movie, well… you just need to see this movie.

No thanks to my parents, I’m a fairly sentimental guy. Most times I’m able to mask it well by telling a joke, or pretending I’m manly or something. But this movie… well, it made my heart explode into a million pieces, glued it back together haphazardly and then made it explode again, but in the good way. I love movies that make me think. More than that, I love the movies that make me hope.

Life is full of surprises and mysteries and disappointments and miracles. It’s a whirlwind of wonder and magisty mixed with failures and confusion. It’s full of friends and family and inside jokes laced with death and war and homework. Perhaps, what is most interesting about “real life” is that you never know what kind of hand you will be dealt, or when that hand full of seemingly worthless cards will suddenly turn into a winning one.

I love the quote at the end of the movie, “Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.” As important as it is to have a plan, a goal or a destination in mind, what is exceedingly more important is the people we meet along the way, how they touch our lives and how we touch theirs. The detours that derail our planned journey are often the paths that lead us to the beautiful lookouts. These gorgeous vistas that we are graced with along this seemingly long and bumpy road are the people we truly love to the very core. They are the people who are placed in our lives again and again. They are the ones who know who we truly are. They have seen us during our highs and our lows, and somehow, regardless of the fact that they know exactly who we are, they don’t go away.

It’s these people that make life worth living. It’s these people that make the journey a little more beautiful, the ride a little less long and bumpy, and the the surprises… well, worth it. Real life rocks.

My Love… for you…

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