The movies..

I recently watched a movie and laughed at myself as I went out of the movie theater with tearstains on my face, hanky and probably a little on my shirt. It's amazing how these love stories can touch your hearts and move you to tears.

Provided the plot gives you everything you should expect: denouement (as pointed out by my friend complete with research and all), climax, whatever-terms-theathers-use and the lines that also help give it an edge, you cannot help but connect to a character in one way or another. It's probaby the reason why these kind of movies are made, to make us see the everyday emotions in a brighter light.

You laugh as you see them do funny antics.
You gush and you sigh as they are about to fall into this crazy thing we call love.
Then, you cry as you watch the character go through a painstaking ache as result of falling in love.
You cry as you watch them try to survive.
And yet,when the happy ending is about to unfold, you still cry.
Why is that?

As I was watching a hilarious comedy series that has become a fave, my question was finally answered.

We all want those happy endings for ourselves which is why we still cry at the end of every movie.
We wish that somehow, we could be them so we can be as happy as they are.
We want to be those characters, wearing that smile of contentment and humming that tune of bliss.

But when you think about it, our lives are like movies.
We have all the criteria that the theater has come up with.
These problems, emotional and otherwise, are the conflicts.
These conflicts are just plot points in this little story of ours.
How we fight, how we start anew and how we get back up is the climax.
And we can still have those happy endings.
Not exactly right now or maybe not in the near future but we'll get there.
With a little patience and a whole lot of faith.

So you see? Our life is like the movies.
Maybe not as famous as those advertised, maybe not shown in neon signs for everyone to see and maybe even not with a power cast for the roles. Each of our movie may not grab the emmy's or the golden globe, but it still rocks.
After all, we are the STARS of our own shows.