highly literary, with occasional grammar slips

spoiler alert!

"the notebook" tells a story about an old lady, allie who has senile dementia and her husband, noah who reads their love story to her over and over again from the notebook she has written before she completely forgot about her past. this notebook speaks of their transcendental love; true love that goes beyond the boundaries of class and money, and of course, love that goes beyond time and age. when they grew old, their love transcended illnesses; most essentially, it was beyond the grasp of death. their love "created miracles".

i was sobbing like a baby not because the film depicted the scenes in such touching manner, but because i saw how love has such power on its own that nothing or no one can withhold. love is so powerful that it brings one to the impossible, it even embraces the impossible. as i watched this show, i marvel at the unspeakable powers of true love.

it is nothing as fulfilling as watching a brilliance unfolding before you, though intangible but having its light shine into your every senses. "the notebook" encompasses the very essence of transient love that i suppose has lost itself in the face of cowardice and selfishness. i say it because i see so many married couples staying in a marriage out of the children, or worse still, out of obligation. love is not without its woes (it is not like the eagles' song "love will keep us alive"). i'm sure this film left out the quarrels they had over money, children or how a toothpaste should be squeezed. but the greatest challenge and perhaps, the greatest blessing of all, is to find love in all these, shouldn't that be the case?

i don't know what will happen in the future. i might be guilty of the booboos that i mentioned next time; but i truly hope that the love that i would have would go beyond these trials. that it will be a love that transcends beyond boundaries, beyond toothpast squeezing.

funny how a show can bring you to such distance. but as rey chow (sorry fellow english majors) said, visuality is so powerful a medium it shapes history. even though my epiphany cannot make a big difference like how it did for lu xun (background: it was because of a film that he saw that changed his discourse from medicine to literature), i hope it changes the way i look at love.

i truly hope it gave you revelation as well. and perhaps, your vision of love when you can no longer walk properly or see, when you are old and white;