Love

thank God my patho CA is over! i've like a month before 5 CAs and seriously it feels good to know there's 1 more mth till the papers.. even though the studying is gonna start soon but ohh i can breathe and relax now for a while....

anyway, i surprised myself today. during dinner, i decided to switch the channel to HBO because channel 5 was showing some weird show.. anyway the movie on HBO was Madea's family reunion and i was like what in the world is this movie. but anyway i just watched. and i had a good mind to like switch channels but probably a bit too bored to lift up the remote.. but after awhile, i realised it was quite cool... there was lots of laughing for me hahha and eventually the movie touched on so many issues.. love, family, sexual abuse etc... what really touched me was it had such good moral values in it! there was this scene, where a group of grandmothers were sitting at a table, during the family reunion. and this old lady just started talking about the love she and her husband had.. and though it was a movie, IT FELT SO REAL! like i could really feel the emotions of that old lady and it really enlightened me and gave me warm and nice feelings inside... there are so many people who never believe in true love anymore.. but oh, as long as i live i shall believe that true love does indeed exist, the kind where i was meant for her, she was meant for me... the kind of love that is stronger than anything in the world.. the kind that grows stronger through trials and tribulations, grows deeper through happiness or sadness. wow love seriously is the best thing in the world. And not just that type of love you have for your wife, but for your family, and for your friends. I can't imagine what i'd be without my friends and the people who truly love me.
Anyway i went to find out who produced the movie, and it turned out to be this guy called Tyler Perry, who acted as a super funny grandma called Madea in the show. All his movies are always about such issues like love and stuff, and they always have a lot of moral messages in the movies. Yes and he's a Christian. i think i can expect myself trying to watch more of his movies.
and, this lady, Maya Angelou acted in the movie as one of the grandmothers. and during the wedding, she read a poem that she wrote. little did i know she was a Pulitzer prize winner and one of the most powerful ladies in America.. her poem really moved me.

The sun has come.
The mist has gone.
We see in the distance...
our long way home.
I was always yours to have.
You were always mine.
We have loved each other in and out of time.

When the first stone looked up at the blazing sun
and the first tree struggled up from the forest floor
I had always loved you more.
You freed your braids... gave your hair to the breeze.
It hummed like a hive of honey bees.
I reached in the mass for the sweet honey comb there....
Mmmm...God how I love your hair.

You saw me bludgeoned by circumstance.
Lost, injured, hurt by chance.
I screamed to the heavens....loudly screamed....
Trying to change our nightmares to dreams...

The sun has come.
The mist has gone.
We see in the distance our long way home.
I was always yours to have.
You were always mine.
We have loved each other in and out
in and out
in and out
of time.

This was one of the other grannies saying sth..
Aunt Myrtle: "We had a love so strong.. that is just seemed like we were one. I would get ready to tell him something and he would open his mouth and say the very thing, that I was fixing to tell him. And then. there were those moments when I would lay my head on his chest just to listen to his heart beat. And then one night. I realized that his heart beat, matched mine. I have had an opportunity that few people ever get on this earth. God has blessed me to share time and space with a man that he designed himself just for me. I've not only been blessed.. I have been divinely favored.




wow.
As i think of the conversation the grannys were having in the movie. i thought to myself.. you know you've found the love of your life when both of you are grey haired, old people, but yet to each other you still mean the world. and all that mushy stuff.. the most beautiful couples you can ever see must be those who are like 60 plus right, growing in old age together.. (both parties, sorry donald trump)
i know if i ever get to that stage, i would think back on my youth and wondered why being pretty was ever on my list of the qualities i want in my wife. because regardless whether she was 30, 60 or 99, she would be the most beautiful lady in the world to me.

Love has got to be the most beautiful thing in the world. Don't stop believing in it.