Love always wins. It goes unnoticed by some through the day, but Love always wins somewhere. It just won someplace right now. In life. In realities real and created. In fiction. In non-fiction. In science fiction. Morrie put a simple tag on this waging war called "a tension of opposites." Morrie goes on to describe it as a "pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle."
I believe Morrie is telling us all that no matter where you are on the rubber band, when you are on the side of love, you will prevail.
Like when Princess Leia says, "I love you." to Han Solo before he is frozen in carbonite, and loses him to the bounty hunter. LOVE reunites the Princess and Solo when she rescues him from Jabba the Hutt. Love wins.
In Braveheart, a couple is married out of a life long love that started with the innocence of youth. After the untimely death of his love, William Wallace channels that love to conquer a country for his people, so that those countrymen may love freely. Through that freedom of a nation, and his death, William Wallace is able to be reunited with his love, and in eternity, enjoy marital bliss. Love wins.
In the movie, The Notebook, when a man moves into the home where his wife is suffering from Alzheimer, so he can read the stories of her notebook, so she can remember him. This is love conquering Alzheimer's. Love wins
In Love Actually, when a father helps his son win the affections of a girl, because the father is reliving what it was like to fall in love with the wife and mother they both have just lost, love has been transcended and reborn, even through death. Love wins.
Right now, at this very moment, a girl is giving a boy their first kiss, and a new love is born.
Right now, at this very moment, an old woman is giving a dying man a kiss goodbye, and their love is just as strong as the day it was born.
Love wins.
Morrie's Mantra: "Love each other or die."
great post, never really looked at all these things in this light.
ReplyDeleteThanks Andres.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed that you brought in so many movies, and looked at the way love works in each. There's so much more to love than just romantic love and that is what you showed w/ so many different depictions.
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