The Final Two Lessons

Haha… managed to meet my target and finished the book before the movie version (160mins long!!!) was aired on Hallmark Channel. Well, like most print-to-screen movies, this one didn’t do the book justice too. It missed out a number of details and yet seemed draggy. I guess reading allows you to explore the characters in a deeper sense and you have the ability to create and interpret the mood and scene as and when you read them whereas for movies, every visual stimulus is offered to you. You can either take it or leave it. Where’s the fun?

Many authors and movies have offered representations of heaven, but few with as much conviction and creativity as Mitch Albom’s version. The other movie that I can think of that portrays life after death creatively is What Dreams May Come starring Robin Williams. Beautiful cinematography, refreshing point of view of life after death and the essential message is simple, love doesn’t end in death. For every ending, there’s a beginning.

Having finished the book, here are the final two lessons:

LESSON 4:

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them, food or tousle their hair or move them, around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end. Love doesn’t. ~ Marguerite

Hmmm... Every fleeting moment will always be remembered, be treasured and be in my memory forever. Love is not lost if you continue to love be it the distance, the absence or the constraints.

LESSON 5:

With our existence, comes a purpose. The simple and sometimes mundane things that we do in our lives can affect others.

~ Each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories but the stories are all one. ~

Hmmm…Who have I affected, am I affecting and will I affect? Hope I didn’t ruin anyone’s life by my mistakes.