I was opening my yahoo mail today and I saw a featured article on 2o Best Views in the World.
Aaaah… the Grand Canyon…
photo credit to Tom Till/Getty Images
Isn’t she a beauty… awe-spiring!
And so I was brought back to the time when I said: I have to be there when there’s a chance to be in the US of A!
And when was this? It was that year when FOOLS RUSH IN was out on the big screen, circa 1997.
Darn! Those were the days… Hahaha!
And the movie quotes I’d dribble on my books and notes:
“Love is a gift… not an obligation”
“You are everything I never knew I wanted!”
“You will never know love unless you surrender to it…”
“It is not your faith that has betrayed you. It is your fear”
“There are signs everywhere….”
I was very idealistic then. It has to be like this, a relationship has to be like that. So on and so forth. No gray areas. Either a relationship works. Or it does not, then he is not the one.
Fairytales, prince and princess, damsel in distress rescued by a gallant knight in a shining armore (and I would throw in a handsome face to that shining armor in a visor!). My own Utopia. Everything so perfect.
That one day, he would just cross my path, see me, and would believe that love at first sight do exist. Hahaha! How pathetic of me then.
But yes, I went through the usual hoops and loops. And got doped! Hahaha!
Of all the quotes in the movie, it is the last one that would still stand out. There are signs everywhere.
Until now, I still do believe in signs. And it is ironic.
Why?
I am a practicing Catholic. I believe I do have faith in the Lord. And yet, armed with my faith, I would still ask from Him to give me a sign before proceeding.
Does one really need a sign in order to proceed? Can’t what is in the deepest recesses of one’s heart not enough? If one does have faith with the Supreme Being, isn’t it the heart that is a person’s compass in life? So why ask for a sign?
More often than not, I really don’t know what I want. If I do, life could have been so simple…
