Last day of August – despite the threat of a transportation strike, I walked my way towards our office only to find out that work has been cancelled. But as usual, my colleagues were also around and we simply accused each other of being workaholics, recited famous lines from old local movies and laughed ourselves off while continuing our work.
Since we were still on the holiday mode, I went out with bossingshe and applethea that afternoon to watch the light comedy Crazy Stupid Love. It reminded me of the movie Love Actually – only with less characters and more laughable antics. The characters were also circularly related to each another and the theme focused only on the romantic connection of soulmates and keeping them. The relationship of Cal and Emily (played by Steve Carell and Julianne More) seem to stress that aside from knowing your soulmate, one ought to choose them in order to keep them with you. Although I liked it that Cal’s daughter (Emma Stone, Easy A) gets Jacob (Ryan Gosling, The Notebook) to change his playboy ways, I wanted to see a bit more strength in the development of his character in the movie to convince me that their relationship is for keeps. Or maybe I want to see more of his photoshopped-like abbs. (Just kidding) =P
Soulmates. What or who exactly is a soulmate? I have a hard time believing in the concept of soul mates, let alone the idea that they will meet and end up being together. But that’s because I’ve met people I got along so well in an instant and I'm just so happy to find someone I can share my hobbies, interests and passion with. It makes me giddy sometimes but not always wired with romantic vibes. Have you ever tried sitting down with people from a very different walk of life? They've usually got something interesting to say. That is, if you keep an open mind and heart AND they don’t come across with an egoistic air around them.
As it happens, these "soulmates" just seem to come and go. They can be just around the corner or they can be at the other side of the world. According to a book recommended to me entitled Soulmates by Thomas Moore, a soul mate is one you have a soulful relationship with, the one you can communicate anything under the sun without inhibition or pretense. We can have several soul mates – friends who share our love for hobbies and collectible items, friends to whom we sit down with and say nothing at all but totally get what the other is feeling. Two of my college buddies shared the same birth dates and called each other soul mate or “kambal.” Heck, the Hero Jose Rizal called his German friend Ferdinand Blumentritt his soulmate!
But on the notion of a soul mate a.k.a. life partner, I asked my former high school science teacher who is a fan of magical science and who wrote a note entitled the Magical Method of Calling your Soulmate: How does one know his/her soulmate? How can one be so sure that he/she is “The One?” I mean, we get a lot of similar frequencies once in a while, right? He simply replied “If you know yourself, you will know your twin soul.”
I guess that's an appropriate advice for the girls who get worked up and hyper at the sight of their male crushes in my former school where he works.
I guess that's an appropriate advice for the girls who get worked up and hyper at the sight of their male crushes in my former school where he works.
Have you watched the movie Somewhere in Time? There’s this dreamlike scene when writer Richard Collier (played by the late Christopher Reeve), finally arriving in 1912 via self-hypnosis time travel, walks into the park looking for the woman he saw in a portrait. He then sees someone familiar behind the trees and is entranced by the scene. The woman, actress Elise McKenna (played by Jane Seymour), slowly walks into sight, gazes at him with wonder and awe and asks “Is it you?” Talk about swoon moment.;)
In the end though, they didn’t get your typical happy ending on earth – which I admit was a bit depressing but better than the usual cliché of them getting back together quite easily. The striking thing there is that they felt so strongly towards each other- Richard was able to travel through time and Elise was able to wait for so long to meet him again in the future. Then they died almost instantly after seeing each other (Yesss! I mean, that's sad).
It’s a bit impractical to look for your soulmate in the past but it puts other so-called relationships and soulmates to shame, don’t you think?
How about you? Do you still believe in soulmates? Despite my skepticism and sarcasm, the crappy events I’ve experienced and served as witness, the world taking a turn for better or for worse, I know I do. I have done so. I still do. And I will continue to be...so far. Hahaha. ;)
