If you listen, if you truly listen you’ll always hear more than the noise. In these months of the most real form of uncertainty, I read and I read between the lines of what I read. So, not only did I pick up lessons from words that turned into sentences that turned into paragraphs that turned into chapters that turned into a book, but I also tried to peak into the author or the character’s mind. It’s the most fascinating way of seeing with a fresh set of eyes. I watched more movies than I normally do, and the world of fiction has so much to give.
These are some lines from movies that I go back to time and again.
“We never lose our demons, we only learn to live above them”
Doctor Strange of the Marvel Comics strikes a chord that reminds you of somebody with aeons of wisdom. Through the course of life, I do believe that we become better people and that growth, is us fighting our demon and simply living above the influences of it.
“Easy to fool yourself that the people you love are honest”
Patrick Jane from the Mentalist tugged at my heart when he said this in a fleeting moment. I’d be going too far if I said it was a human flaw to make an excuse for the people you love because is it not the same love that makes us who we are?
“I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye”
Piscine Patel in Life of Pi looked so human and so full of grief in saying this. Maybe in our day to day life, we never realise, life really isn’t about anything tangible after all, it’s in what we fail to see, saying goodbye, kissing your child before bed, falling asleep in the arms of the person you love and looking out the window on a rainy day.
“I have loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has been enough”
From the first time I saw Noah say it in The Notebook, to the 100th time I’ve seen it, a part of me will always believe that everyone deserves to be loved like that. Not just romantically, in any relationship that we have, between two friends and two sisters or neighbours even, we all were made for love.
“Grief makes us behave in ways we might not expect”
Everyone has experienced some form of grief, from losing a loved one to falling out with a parent or letting go of a relationship you never thought you would have to. Ani from 13 Reasons Why puts it so well. Sometimes grief comes knocking, we let it in and we don’t know, sometimes it feels like a punch to the stomach and sometimes, you don’t feel it at all. In my experience, welcome grief, let grief hover and then hold the door open with a smile for grief to leave.
“And most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself”
The trendiest lawyer, Elle Woods from Legally Blonde is a breath of real hope, that there is light at the end of the tunnel and if you’re lucky enough, you have a whole squad that’ll cheer you on. Just do what you know best in the way you know best with integrity.
“The things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end”
From one of my favourite movies, Luna Lovegood of Harry Potter convinced me that good exists in every person. Often we find ourselves hurting about the people and things we’ve lost along the way, but the universe has always had tricks up its sleeves. What was meant to be ours, always will be.
“Home isn’t a place, it’s the people you’re with, I guess that’s why they’re called your homies”
Columbus from Zombieland took the old saying ‘home is where the people you love are’ and said it in a millennial way. But come to think of it, isn’t that the truth? Is home not where your homies are, the people that mean the most to you and love you are?
“And we must take care of our family, wherever we find them”
Liz went places in search of herself in Eat Pray Love and fell in love with the land, the language and the people. It was heartwarming to think of all the family I have that transcend a blood relation. To my family miles from, thank you and I will always love you and look out for you.
“This is perhaps the greatest risk any of us will take, to be seen as we truly are”
Cinderella’s fairy godmother said it like it is. To be the most authentic version of ourselves in a world that demands perfection, to be honest with our flaws and to lay it out will be the most giant leap of faith that we’ll take.
“To live would be an awfully big adventure”
From Peter Pan to an adult in the midst of a pandemic, how true this is! I can’t begin to think how much to the world there is, that it adds up to just one adventure right at the end. Sometimes I wonder, when I’m old and senile, what will be the story I have to tell? Would it bring my listeners back for more?
From animation to biographical movies, there is so much to absorb and I’d say, count your blessings that you are alive to witness these lessons in motion!
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