Love Actually

3 days to my sister's wedding.

Deciding on a quiet evening after a long day of running around, I picked up a random video from our collection and settled down to watch it with my sister. It turned out to be one of our all-time favourites, Love Actually. It's a movie with not just a single story but many little stories loosely bound to each other and it deals with love in its many forms. Not just the running-around-trees or boy-meets-girl-next-door types of love mind you, but all kinds of love.

It was the perfect setting for the both of us, unplanned and quiet. We sat there laughing as we watched this funny yet strangely thought provoking movie. We really aren’t very sentimental people but this evening was very special for the both of us. It was a brief moment in time for us to celebrate our bond since we don’t know what the future holds for us, whether we would have the such quality time to watch movies or fight or just talk. During this movie I began realising that whatever happens after today, we’d be there for each other and so everything was going to be ok.

If you haven't seen the movie, I strongly advise you see it. If have seen it before then don't you think it’s about time that you saw it again? I'm not very good at narrating movie stories, so I shall not impose that on you. Instead I will let you watch it and enjoy it in your own time. Try and watch it with someone you care, if you can. It just might be as special for you as it was for us.

I believe that it’s the individual bonds that we create with our environment that make us human. There are many examples in our daily lives, like the bond that exists between a brother and a sister, a parent and a child, a man and his wife, a citizen and his/her country, between lovers, between friends and sometimes even between an aging wrinkled rock star and his chubby manager, well I could go on, but I’m sure by now you get the point. Whatever forms these bonds are, they all give us a sense of belonging, a sense of being cared for and thought of, in their own little ways. In short, these bonds of love and care are our roots.

Life is complete only when it's shared. Isn't it?

We seek love, far and long, waiting for it to arrive and somehow magically change our lives. But the moral here is that love actually, is all around.