Airborne Update

As I'm sitting here on the airplane to Cape Town, South Africa, having nothing better to do and already watched two comedies, I turn on a Romance. 'Letters to Juliette'. Now, i must admit i'm not a big fan of the whole Romeo and Juliet concept, or the reenactments. Truth be told, the story line hardly appeals to me.

Nevertheless, as I sit here watching the movie, I become quite..intrigued. A woman, well at the time (50 years ago), a mere 15 year old, wrote a letter to 'Juliet' seeking help. Like any teenage girl thinks she is or has been, she was in love and she was going to get married with the 'man' whom had swept her away. However, she backs out, she's scared, she's confused and most importantly, she's young. 

As 50 years rolls along, a young woman stumbles upon this letter and decides to reply, not being fully convinced the letter would even arrive at its destination. 

Yet, as if it were fate, the letter reaches the targeted person. The receiver of the letter, whom remembers this love of hers as if it were just yesterday races off to Italy, to find her 'Lorenzo'. For days the search continues because the love has not died, only blossomed into something that fuels the passion and adrenaline pulsing through her veins. She wants, she needs, to find him. 

With no luck, she gives up, and only at that moment, does she stumble upon what she's been searching for, for fifty years. The fire has returned to her life, not only through vivid memories of long summer nights spent on the earth floor, under the stars, but now in reality.

Back to the one whom replied to the 50 year old letter in the first place. She realizes her fiancé is not the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with, but someone whom she can live without, someone she wouldn't miss. She decides to break it off, to move onto something closer to her heart, a man she believes she has fallen madly in love with, can't get out of her mind. Yes yes, i know, it's cliché at it's finest, but I guess that's just why it gets to me, everyone seems to look past it, when our whole life is a movie we've all seen a hundred times.

I guess what i'm trying to get at is..the person you could possibly be spending the rest of your life with is somewhere on this planet. Either a hundreds of thousands of miles away from you, or right next door to you. The world is a strange place, and you should always fallow your heart because its the one thing that will always be honest and true to you, it can't lie or deceive you. 

So, as cheesy as it sounds, fallow your heart, fallow your dreams and don't give up, love has no time limit, although, you wouldn't want to waste away your one life chasing false aspirations that you have tricked yourself into believing.