Life is Imperfect!
A quote from the movie ‘Sweet November’ which Mike lent me.
Watched it a day before my birthday!
Sneaked two hours of my sleep after shift.
Starring Keanu Reeves as Nelson Moss, a typical businessman who devotes his life to his career. He meets Sara (Charlize Theron), a woman very different from anyone else he has ever met.
His arrogance and ignorance leads to her failing her
DMV test and she decides to track him down to make him pay for what he did.
She beguiles him and convinces him to spend a month with her on the promise that she will change his life.
Throughout the course of November the two experience several breakups.
Nelson examines his life and his past in great detail.
During their adventures Nelson befriends a fatherless child called Abner (Liam Aiken).
Eventually Nelson realizes that he is deeply in love with Sara and asks her to marry him.
This sets in motion a sudden chain of events that reveal Sara’s terminal cancer.
Because Sara cannot bear to have Nelson experience her decline in health and eventual death, she asks him to leave.
For a time Nelson complies with her wishes, but then stages a surprise return during her Thanksgiving dinner.
What seems to be a perfect reunion is ruined when Nelson wakes up the next morning to find that Sara is once again asking him to leave.
Sara tries to run away but Nelson runs after her.
Eventually they catch up and in the tearful scene that follows Sara asks Nelson to leave so that he will always have only happy and strong memories of her.
Sara explains that she needs to know this is how she will be remembered, so that she can face her last days in life.
The movie ends with Sara blindfolding Nelson (a revisitation of an activity they had done earlier in the month) and then walking away.
The rules are simple…
No questions…
No holding back…
….And absolutely not more than one month.
Why a month?
Because it’s long enough to be meaningful, but short enough to stay out of trouble.
Worrying about losing keeps you winning.
I surrender all attempts to control life, yours or mine. I live for one thing, to make you happy; to live firmly and joyously in the moment. November is all I know, and all I ever want to know.
If I’ve learned anything it’s that you should have the people who love you, around you as long as you possibly can.
–You live in a box…I could lift the lid… –Wow…that’s deep.
I really can’t relate to Sara’s character here.
I don’t know if I can have the guts to even think what she’ve done to hook Nelson.
But I know I need to get involved with someone.
Enough with Boom and Beam.
It’s not that I will stop loving these two loving, sweet, affectionate, little individuals.
But I just need to devote more time for myself.
I really need to practice now especially that I’ve plans of working overseas next year.
I rarely remember how to be in a relationship anymore.
Dont wanna impose rules anymore.
Dont want to call the shots this time..
Dont want to be the one to decide for my man.
If ever, haha!
I have my few admirers online, but that’s about it.
Swedish, Belgian, Canadian, French, British, Malaysian, Turkish, Findlander (acdg to Ben) & recently, someone from Singapore.
I dont really know what to believe to anything they say.
I”ve unawarely commited to a Swiss guy last Oct. 18 who endeared me with nick ‘Princess’.
He’s suppose to come here this month for a vacation, however, he lied to me before that he got no kid/s, during one of our conversations, he slipped that he had an eleven-year old daughter here in the Phils. that he wants to get a Swiss visa.
Some of the traits I value mosts are honesty and loyalty.
If you can’t give me those, you’re out.
So, I decided not to continue..
Woh, whatta blog on my birthday!
Team & my friends, thanks for all the wishes and greetings!