I checked out some of my journals for the past 2 years and I found something that I would like to share with my blog. It's about my comfort movie, 500 Days of Summer. I love Zooey Deschanel so much. Here's how the journal goes. "This is a story of a boy meets girl but you should know upfront this is not a love story."
"Everytime I feel sad I think about a lot of things so that my mind will not be occupied by my downed emotions. I would love to do things that would not make me sad. Writing is number one on my list, but the most common thing that a girl does is to eat and I do that sometimes, then watch movies that are sad, romantic movies and if not sad let's say animal flicks. First on my list is 500 Days of Summer.
I can see the reality on Summer Finn. I see how she fell in love and denied it. She knew she was in love. She's just not sure enough. Summer is fun to be with. She's smart. She's everything a guy wants, but the problem was she never found it with Tom Hansen. She wasn't sure about him. He got bored of him, so she cut of everything with him and just be friends. He doesn't want to be friends with her. He needs to forget her, but he wasn't able to do that. He's still expecting that she would return. She got enganged and that is the start of the changes he wants for his life. He quit his job as a greeting card writer and pursued what he took in college, architecture. He read and reviewed architecture. He passed his works to different companies but he was rejected. He did not lose hope, until he and Summer met again at his favorite park. She's married. This is the part I got sad.
They talked for the last time. Exchanging goodbyes, hopong for the best and happiness for each other. Reality check for him he thought she was the girl for him, but maybe there is someone waiting to be known and that is how the movie ended. She met Autumn, his competition in applying the same job.
When I reflect on the film, I realized that you can cut my hair anytime and eventually it will grow back. You will meet people and some will go. They may return or they may not. Chances are there is that one person out there that's waiting to be found and waiting to be known."
That's how the journal goes and 500 Days of Summer is still and always be my comfort movie. Summer did not believed in love at first maybe because it's not him that made her realize that love really exist. Just like what Summer said to Tom, I'll just paraphrase it. " It just happened. I woke up one day and I knew.. what I was never sure of with you. . I was sitting at a deli reading Dorian Gray. I guy comes out to me and asked me about it. Now he's my husband. So what if I've gone to the movies or gone somewhere else for lunch. What if I've got there 10 minutes later. It was meant to be. I just kept thinking Tom was right.."
The senses are used in order to understand what one sees, hear, smell, taste and feel. Yet if senses are just merely for tangible things then it just limits what the person wants to know. It limits them of what is really needed to feel, see, hear, taste and feel. For instance the sense of sight is just for the use of seeing what is around. How about using the eyes as for perceiving what the object really is, or what is beyond that object. How was it made? What materials did they use to that object. It doesn't mean that if you see a plate it limits to just one shape, color or even its use. Plates can be used for putting food on it, can be a collection to hobbyist or it can just be displayed. The senses are used for multi-purpose tasks. They can be used simultaneously. Senses will help you realize that there is beyond everything else either tangible or intangible.
