PS, I Love You

I watched the movie PS,I Love You today, after reading the book TWICE. My personal opinion, reading the book is way so much better than watching a movie. I'm definitely NOT SAYING the movie is bad. It was way too awesome. In fact, it was the movie which inspired me to blog. But still, reading the book was better. There's more anticipation involved. =)

PS, I Love You, written by Cecelia Ahern is all about dealing with the death of your loved ones. The synopsis goes like this :

"Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other.

Until the unthinkable happens. Gerry's death devastates Holly. But as her 30th birthday looms, Gerry comes back to her. He's left her a bundle of notes, gently guiding Holly into her new life without him, each note signed "PS,I Love You"

As the notes are gradually opened, and as the year unfolds, Holly is both cheered up and challenged. The man who knows her better than anyone sets out to teach her that life goes on. With some help from her friends, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing - and being braver than ever before. "

Coming back to the movie, starring Hillary Swank and Gerald Butler. Applause to both of them for feeling the character and making it feel real (I know that's their job, but hey, READ THE BOOK BEFORE WATCHING THE MOVIE and you'll know what I meant) Being a soppy freak of nature for emotional movies, I cried from the very beginning of the movie till the end. It's not surprising as I even cried reading the book. =) I was touched by almost every single thing the author described in the book and of course, the movie was taken with full emotion.

The only thing that got me wondering is, do people like Gerry exist?? Are they really committed to do what Gerry did? Does this even get real?? Is it even possible?? Why bother thinking about Gerry- Will YOU do what Gerry did?? Will you be able to even think about doing such a thing when you're almost dying?? It would take such a great lad to do what Gerry had done for Holly. So much of commitment and love was put in just to help the loved one to get over his own death.

I myself am not sure whether I'll be able to do that to my loved one. Would I wanna be forgotten?? DEFINITELY NOT. At the same time, I wouldn't want my loved one to mourn my loss and dwell in it. So, it is for an individual to decide, whether to help or to not to help. Maybe by helping, we would be adding more pain but at the same time, it would be a great help to heal.

It's all up to individual to decide how they want their loved ones to deal with their death. Sometimes,I wonder "How could this kind of people exist??"

Before I end my blog post today, this is the line Holly's mother would tell her after passing the last letter from Gerry.

" If We Are All Alone, We Are All Together In That Too"

Good Day People!

PS, I LOVE YOU
=)