“Life happens to you while you are making plans”

Have you watched the movie “If I Stay” by R.J. Cutler, featuring Chlo? Grace Moretz is in the leading role?

It’s about a high schooler and talented cellist that is involved in a car accident with her whole family. 

Everyone dies except her and she is in a coma. 

She has two choices; follow her family or wake up to a completely different life without the ones she loves.

What will she choose: let it go or fight for life? What would you choose?

She has to decide whether life is good enough to wake up to being an orphan and continue living with the permanent pain of loss. Indeed, can life offer anything worth staying for?

There are three things that really make this movie appealing to me. 

1. The haunting sound of a cello. Although I hated it when I was in school, I enjoy how it sounds especially when somebody really talented is playing.
2. It is a great reminder that “people are mortal”.  if you haven’t read Michael Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita” you definitely should. Time is the only irreplaceable recourse. Unique and utterly valuable. How do we use our time? Are we trying to be present in the moment making it filled with important and precious things or are we just letting it pass by?
3. The beauty of life itself with all its complications and contradictions. With its pain that helps you to have a sharper feeling of love and happiness. With its loneliness that makes you cherish the time when your loved ones are near. With its emptiness that allows you to fill your life with purpose, dreams, and aspirations. With its belief that you will always find the solution if you wish it passionately enough. 

If you are in a philosophical or romantic mood this movie is definitely for you.  

I realize this is a seriously deep topic, and this really drives the conversation towards purpose. Your own purpose. What is it you are here for? What really drives you to get up in the morning?