Excerpt from the movie Letters to Juliet
"What" and "If" are two words as non-threatening as words can be. But put them together side-by-side and they have the power to haunt you for the rest of your life: What if? What if? What if? I don't know how your story ended but if what you felt then was true love, then it's never too late. If it was true then, why wouldn't it be true now? You need only the courage to follow your heart. I don't know what a love like Juliet's feels like: love to leave loved ones for, love to cross oceans for, but I'd like to believe if I ever were to feel it, that I'd have the courage to seize it. And Claire, if you didn't, I hope one day that you will."
The quote
from my all-time favorite movie appears to be plain and simple. It is coherent
and straightforward. But considering the circumstances that revolve around it,
the heavy emotions involved and the right words to use, nah arriving at this
point is something difficult to handle.
For along
with our capacity to love is the fear of facing our own frailty, our own
vulnerability. In entrusting our hearts to someone, fear subtly enters without
even acknowledging its presence. Its coercive nature and its compelling force
can ensnare you into the darkest realm of doubts and uncertainty. These fears
can forever haunt you and torment you in almost all possible ways you can
imagine. The mere endless wandering of what ifs and what could bes can already
drain not just your mind but even your languishing soul.
In battling
against your heart, how long can you try to suppress it? How far can you go to
conceal it? For in this life, we really cannot hold on to something with whole
certainty, with complete assurance that we’ll emerge victorious and we can
avoid any pitfall.
Every choice
we make is a risk- the risk of failing, risk of falling and risk of losing.
But just
like any game, you need to lay down your cards on the table to win. The more
that you suppress what you feel, the more you allow your fears to dominate you and the higher the risk of you losing that kind of happiness you have all wanted.
For you to
be truly happy, you need to take chances; for these are what you have now. These
chances give you hope.
Whether the
answer you’ve found is favorable to you or adversarial, what matters is that
you have tried. Either you stay or you start moving forward. In the end, if the outcome is not yet the best you have been
expecting then there must be a better chance waiting soon to be discovered.
P.S. Since, I can't get over the move Les Miserable. I am sharing you Lea's rendition of Epinonine's On My Own. It's simply amazing.
