Saturday 23 June 2012

Love Story

A friend has this in the right rail on his page, and as I watched "Love Story", I remembered it.  In the movie, Jenny dies, and the pain is as bad as the one described at the end of this little reflection.  

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable.  It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.  You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you.  They didn't ask for it.  They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.  Love takes hostages.  It gets inside you.  It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.  It hurts. Not just in the imagination.  Not just in the mind.  It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.  But, "Don't hate love.”

I'm all shook up!  I know...I'm a sappy sod!  Here's the instrumental version...


And the song (that I can't sing now for crying)...

8 comments:

jilli ♥ said...

*smiles*...a really great movie. And omg Ryan O'neal was purdy..huh..

Kae B said...

*smiles* Yeah, he was!

D B said...

Cry baby! ;) xox

Kae B said...

Yeah, yeah, but ya loves me anyway! *grins*

D B said...

I love you more than you will ever know.Trip over love,you can get up.Fall in love and you fall forever...something for you to think about. :) x

Kae B said...

Oh geez! Trying to wake up my brain, eh? Not gonna give me a break, not even on a Saturday? All right, all right...I'll think about it! *smile*

Thomas (Tom) Jefferson Thompson said...

Saw this movie when it 1st came out....Great Date movie as I recall...
;-)

Kae B said...

It was great to watch it this morning! :)