Marley and Me

There's both a violence side and also a more gentle heart-warming side to me. Typically, action and violence appeals to me more in movies selection (shoot 'em up, underworld, outlander....commando, platoon, rambo.)

I must admit that "Marley and Me" is a nice movie and it brings out the heart-warming side of me. No, I'm not some emo, SNAG fellow. And I never will be. It is just a natural human show of balance in emotions to have this side surfacing once in a while.

Well, it is nice to watch a movie when boy meets girl, boy marries girl and starts a family and work on getting it all together, with a pet. Watching it, I can't help but think of the people around. This is a perfect story and there are many around me. Yet, there are many sad ones too.

Somehow, a part of me is envious of people who are able to put their foot down and make that commitment to be married and, like Owen Wilson, love his wife and family so much. It is not that I can't do that but somehow, it is just not time for me to do yet.

Perhaps, a part of me is like Owen's character in the show... wanna be the reporter and yearning so while being the columnist. Envying his friend who is having the time of his life doing big feature reports and getting read all over the United States. Yet, he does not realized that his friend had always been evnious of him for the family he had.

Watching this show brings out a lot of thoughts in me. I was led to question a lot of things and I was led to answer a lot of things. There will be a time that everyone got to settle down but for me, the time probably have not come.

I'm speaking from a position where I'm going away soon for possibly quite some time. I wondered how things will remained when I returned. I had done so much travel in recent years that even surprises me. it is a dream for me to be going places but the places I had been... only God knows how much I wanted to go some of these places.

People told me "Marley and Me" is romantic comedy and blah..blah...blah. To me, it is simply a journey of a couple's (Jennifer and Owen) efforts to put together the dream of their lives and live it out. That is why it holds some meaning to me especially in my case. It is a good show and definitely worth the money you are paying for.

Plus the fact that Jennifer Aniston is still as hot and beautiful as ever and 15-16 years ago when I was just another teenage boy smitten by a 25 year old beauty acting in "Friends". How time flies!

I hope and know that I would be able to look back years later and be proud of these years that I lived my life... freely. independently.