Have you ever seen the movie "Open Your Eyes"? i watched this movie recently and it was one of the most thought provoking films i've seen in a while, it was beautiful and decadent, it's storyline of romance and misery really moved me...well like most of the movies of that type it leaves you with that feeling of familiarity, something you could possibly relate to or understand...we wrap ourselves up and sniffle to sad songs and movies, we quote the lines and remember the words scene for scene and relate it to our own lost loves and tragic tales of unrequited love and fallen dreams...it's a female thing...i don't know exactly if boys do the same but i know for sure it's common.
"Open Your Eyes" to me was particularly poignant, the story goes that a spoiled playboy living the life in Paris, partying away his fathers money as the company he was awarded to look after struggles as he neglects it in favour of parties and beautiful women...he is an extraordinarily good looking guy and can basically have anything he wants...including his best friends new love interest.
Beautiful Sophia takes him by surprise and it's love at first sight, she is a dancer, beautiful, smart and funny, living a kind of 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' lifestyle, her scattered arsty apartment in a NY terrace is the scene of them falling deeply for one another...one night...no sex...one kiss and it seals them as you see him leaving the next morning and she is excited and whooping on her sofa and the guy walks to his car with the biggest smile on his face. Love...that feeling, he is feeling a buzz like no other as he gets into his car.
What happens after that is where things get interesting, life altering choices we make...we are given a set of pathways to take, we are given options in friendship and love...lust or desire. We scan and observe, but maybe for not long enough...as people we are greedy and easily satisfied...we get comfortable and contented, we get careless and even reckless with hearts and people we care about, we become blinded and sidetracked...losing pace of what is actually most important in life. SL is a messed up place for these kind of behaviors and we moan and complain when everything goes wrong and put it down to drama (the age old excuse for sticking up for yourself and calling people out)
You make choices, you take your path...
So back to the movie...the choice he makes changes his life completely ... it turns it around and everything he once knew becomes scattered to the wind and changed for the worse in a million ways...his life becomes a bad dream, a torrid reality of what 'once was' and his dreams torture him. His life becomes based on what people see...he is a freak and someone to shy away from..unknown and lost in the darkness...his personality transpires into someone filled with rage and hate for himself...and the girl, Sophia... that haunts him.
I was amazed that how easy it was for the guy to lose everything based on how he looks, at one time he had it all...and in a flash he has nothing and worst of all he lost the only girl he ever loved. There was a heartbreaking scene in the movie where he, his best friend and Sophia were coming home from a club and she can't wait to get away from him...she is frightened and confused and it results in he and his best friend having a blazing row...during the fight his best friend shouts at him "Are you going to be cut up forever over a girl you only met once??!" and you see the sorrow in his eyes as he looks at him blankly... This was a girl he fell in love with...and it was belittled ...made insignificant.
We judge people on what we see before our eyes, we often act selfish and can't see the flip side of the coin when we are comfortable in our settings...and then we have the nerve to furiously defend our miscommings...to brush it off and make out like its 'not a big deal' well ...it is...
There a lovely little thing called Karma that i strongly believe in and you need to watch out for that.
Be kind to people
Make the right choices
Help others on their path and help them to make the right choices
Never belittle anothers emotions
Care if you have hurt someone
and most importantly...never ever ever think you are indispensable.
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