A chat with a colleague made me yearn for the movie The Lake house again, so I watched it several times in the past few days. And being silly me, of course I was overwhelmed by it (again!). But my scientific side also argued this time. Actually, there were several things that could not be accepted (at least by a physicist) in that movie. The last act, for example. The one when Kate rushed back to the lake house to send a letter to Alex, begging him not to go to Daley Plaza on that Valentine's day. And then Alex obliged. As the result, he's safe, and could meet Kate at the Lake house 2 years later.
My argument is this: If Alex wasn't killed at the Daley Plaza, then Kate wouldn't go back to the lake house in the first place. She wouldn't find the letters Alex left at the mail box, and they would never exchange letters to each other. In short, there would be no movie. But of course it's possible that Kate still went to the lake house some time later, not right away after the accident (which didn't occur due to her last letter to Alex) and found the letter and so on and so on. In short, the movie still possible to happen. Confuse? Well, don't be. It's just that our action in the past would determine the present and the future. If we did or didn't do something, then the future could be different. So you can imagine if you go back and forth in time, and then you will find different future every time you return to the future. Still confuse? Oh well :D
I really like movies like this, it's romantic but it got me thinking. Having Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock as stars in it also helped a lot to the reason. Hahaha.... Ok, I must admit, I like them so much in this movie. It feels so natural. And then, because I watched it on Youtube, I also read the comments from other viewer there. Most of them are fans of Keandra. Most of them are convinced that Keandra are in love with each other. Hmmm... there's a glitch, though. She's married, dooohhh.....
Although at first I tend to agree with the majority of fans who say that the two must get together since it's obvious that they're in love with each other, the more I watch, the more I think it's not like that. It's true that they really like each other. They enjoy each other present and there's an ease between them. But that's it. The love between them is the love between good friends. And maybe it's best to leave it as it is.
I had a good friend like that once. He's my best friend. Before that, I never thought that it's possible for a girl and a guy to be best friends. There must be some romance involve. But then, I knew this guy, and we became good friends. I can say that he's the only guy that I consider my best friend and purely that. Well, it's true that we have different religion and maybe that helped us steer the feeling away from other kind of relationships beside friendship.
Watching Keanu and Sandra laugh together makes me miss the old days. I suddenly realize that now I almost have no best friends anymore; girl or guy. Well I do have some colleagues who can be considered good friends also, but it feels rather different. Then of course, there's nothing like the college days. So carefee, so energetic, but also so emotionally tiring (when it came to failing love relationships, that was). And I remember, I told my best buddy everything. He's my loyal companion. He's smart, especially when it came to computer, so I relied on him to fix my computer. Because of that, he became the only guy who ever visited my room (my landlady was so strict. She banned guys from coming to our room. My buddy was the only one who could come due to my computer problem). We laughed a lot, he's very funny and we had similar sense of humor. He's also very honest, so I could rely on getting the truth from him whenever I want. But it didn't mean that we're always together. He got his own hobby and I got my own. That way, whenever we got together, there's always new stories and adventures to tell. It's very exciting.
After I know my husband, he became my best friend. And he always told me that I'm his only best friend. In a way, that's true. We share everything and we don't hide things from each other. Well at least that's what I believe. But it's slightly different than having a guy best friend like my colleague buddy. I just miss him, and I also miss those days so much.
PS: Of course I have some girl best friends. One friend, in Thailand, is now what I consider my best friend. We always chat almost everyday through FB. Although she's much younger than me, we really have similar taste and sense of humor also. We get along very well, which I couldn't consider the same with most of my colleagues at work. Oh well, that's life. You win some, you loose some.
PSS: Dedicated to my best buddy (you know who you are ;D) and my best gals (and you guys too..... :D)
