Over the weekend I chanced upon a movie while channel surfing. Alexandre Payne's About Schmidt to me is a film I won't normally spend enough time on. But at that exact moment, I couldn't help myself but be absorbed in the movie's intense feel. Emotions would be played with as I would find poignant scenes, quite simple but striking. Then there'd be funny situations that even as a Filipino, I was able to related. It didn't matter that the character in the movie (played by Jack Nicholson) was a 60+ widower who's travelling the midwest in his Winnebago. I still felt the fact that he was in a crossroads of having lost his wife and now moving on after the loss.

What to do when things change... drastically? To be honest, I am not in a state where I'm comfortable with my life. I have yet to gain emotional stability hopefully on my own but wishing I'd get enough courage to live through this life with my loved one. And what's after having spent decades together, I guess we would be apart again. Does this frame of thought justify the question, if I'm in a relationship that will eventually fall apart because one day we won't be together anymore (death) why stay? It's because I have always believed that a person's life is just like a traditional story of beginning with an ending. The plot can thicken but one must go through each and every line just so that they can truly say, they've finished "the story".