Pocketful of Sunshine: Life events

Major takeaways

10:50 PM

Featured movie: The bucket list

10:00 AM

I was browsing for movies again, hoping against hope that I will be able to discover some old new film that will inspire me. Then I stumbled upon a 2007 film of Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, titled "The Bucket List". This wasn't the film I was supposed to find. I was actually browsing for "Invictus" film since it was recommended by my law school friends. If you are familiar with Imdb.com, there are movies recommended similar to the one you're searching for at the bottom part. The bucket list caught my eye, and voila! I am already searching for it's availability in my favorite "file-sharing" site. :)

I was captivated by the promising premise of the film. Two terminally ill strangers, and looking for adventures. I was doubtful at first since I'm not really a fan of Jack Nicholson, but I gave in because of Morgan Freeman. His movies never failed me so far!

So there, the movie started with a man walking towards a mountain covered with snow. It was Mr. Carter (Morgan Freeman) narrating how a stranger, named Mr. Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) was the bravest man he has known. Anyway, Mr. Cole here is the owner of the hospital where Mr. Carter was confine. Mr. Cole is insistent to his hospital policy of two-persons-one-room-and-no-exceptions. So when he was suddenly diagnosed with a cancer. he shared the room with Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter is a simple man, a husband for 45 years with Virginia, a father of three and a mechanic.

Carter and Cole had a love-hate-relationship, but as the story unfolds, their relationship metamorphosed into a budding friendship of a lifetime. In the end, they made a bucket list and somehow fulfilled it.

The movie touched a soft spot in my heart as it was very surreal. Two men, in their twilight years, living their lives for the first time. I was reminded that it was never too late for everything. They should have been discouraged by their illness but instead, they used this misfortune as an opportunity to start living the life they really wanted. The film brought us to many places; Nepal, India, Hongkong, China, Egypt to name a few. It was narrated simply yet compelling. The film's simplicity is its own power. It will also left you pondering on your faith and all the things you believe in. For my major take away, I think that film is telling us to live our dream. Everyone of us will die, and the only difference that you can make is if you were able to left the Earth with no regret in your heart. To quote Mr. Carter. "And he die with his eyes close, with an open heart."

It is a highly recommended film. :)

current events

The wandering

2:59 PM

Something stirs inside me, an unexplained feeling, is it sadness? Anxiety? Emptiness? It's not yet ripe for sorting and I am letting myself feel it. I believe ito's important to allow myself to freeze in a while when everything seems unclear.

The wandering

The urgent feeling to escape is blurring my logical reasoning. The closer I look within myself, the more feeling of retaliation I get. It's as if I am resisting my own existence, my whole being. Being lost is common to me but being lost with a feeling of defeat is a new sensation I hope not to feel. The sudden lost of direction, the purpose, the corrupt society, the feeling of hopelessness to the situation in my outside world is really affecting my existence. I am trying to shake it off and go on, but I can't stand seeing injustice being done, the unfairness and the bitter reality slapping me. I become a bitter machine, a barrel full of poisonous substance. The more I engage, the more I become dangerous inside, ready to snap, ready to go for a kill.

Why? It's always why for me, why others turn a blind eye, is it the way this society should be lived of just to survive? The more bigger question for me is why am I being affected with all the things that's happening. Why? because lives are wasted, lives are at stake, and others are fine with this. Worst, while everybody is shouting that they really care, I am not feeling it, because for me, this world is becoming a superficial world full of dolls. They only look at themselves and not for the other people, its always a fake concerned and a fake smiles, a fake statements and a fake love. Nobody really cares! I developed a feeling of mistrust to all the good things because of the reality that is continuously and disturbingly slapping me. Is this really the society I lived in? At the end of the day, I am coming into conclusion that this world is really lived to be about I? It's the I-Society with phony compassion and wicked intentions. Agh! Enough of this wandering for now, I am afraid that if I see things clearer, I will not be able to swallow it and be choked to death and be doomed forever.

backpackers

Of courage and travels

10:58 AM

best friends forever

Happy birthday to the best bud in the world!!! This one's for you!

8:57 PM

New life, new school. I was so afraid with the changes in my life. I felt I was Sarah Crewe at that time, stripped off of privileges with no friends and no anything just my new life. My dad just past away, our business got bankrupt and we just loss our house. I nervously entered the door of my new classroom, I look at my new classmates and in return they looked at me in a strange way. I was the only transferee in the class. I don't know how to act, will I smile? will I introduce myself to them? I opted to be quiet and sat in the backrow seat.

Our teacher left, still nobody dared to talk to me. Until this girl with a 'kinky' hair turned around and gave me a curious and friendly smile. I smiled in return, and as I remember she asked me about the time. That is the start of a friendship honed by time and created by destiny and that was 14 years ago.

Today, the girl who smiled to me will have another year to pile. My life will never be the same without this girl, my best friend. Some say, it's hard to find a friend that will really stick around as you age, but for me, it was effortless. I guess we are really destined to be friends forever. Despite the small fights, to the chips delight and all, to the mishaps like the bombings and the budol-budol, to our first out of town travel, to her first heartbreak and to my depression, we overcame it together.

I was blessed to have a friend to grow with together, a person who despite all the bad things, will be readily available to listen and be crazy for you. She is a friend who will be rushing to your house, even at the wee hours, to help a friend who was rushed to a psychologist that turned out to be a prank. She is the only person, aside from my other BFF (Mary Ann don't kill me okay!) that can tolerate my craziness! (But you have a higher tolerance than Mary Ann! :p) She is none other than my super-uber-duper friend Juijui! Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart!

Happy happy birthday to my dearest friend Juijui! Stay crazy too and congrats to your blog! So proud of you! Wish you all the best, and more Wednesday este Birthdays to come! :p I will always be here for you, through 'thick and thin' literally or figuratively! Aja to our future dude! :)

Epilogue

I am Sarah Crewe no more, from the moment that the girl named Mary Joy Demausa ask for the time and for my name, our story was like the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, we might have some differences but we are similar at the same time. More adventures to come my friend!

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The end is just the beginning

5:10 PM

Major takeaways

Featured movie: The bucket list

The wandering

Of courage and travels

Happy birthday to the best bud in the world!!! This one's for you!

The end is just the beginning

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