Love and death: heartbreaking, but also empowering

Pearlie 2022-04-19 09:01:27

Death is inevitable. Oblivion is inevitable. Life is finite, squeezed awkwardly between the two dates, your birthdate and the date on your death certificate.

Oblivion is inevitable. There is a time for everything and there will be an ultimate demise when Sun explodes and the earth gets stormed over and swallowed. It feels like you exhale your last sigh, but it tapers away right into a void, dies down and will never be echoed back.

Life is finite.

But even among that remorsefully short period of time, you can get a chance of Forever, whether it be a moment, an image, a song, or a person.

Or a symbol, a metaphor, or you may call it—a star. Anything that empowers you and helps answer that big question : what do I live for?

Life is short, obstructions are unexpected, death is impeding, and oblivion is fated. We can't choose if we get hurt in this world or not, but we do have some say in who to hurt us. We can't have many admirers, but we can have at least one. That one and only, who will always remember you, even long after the world ceases to do so.

And that one person is gonna make all the difference.

Live bravely.
Heartbreaking and empowering, you don't get these two packed in one movie very often. So enjoy it.

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The Fault in Our Stars quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Isaac: You know, Gus talks about you all the time.

    Hazel Grace Lancaster: We're just friends.

  • Hazel Grace Lancaster: Really? That's disgusting!

    Augustus Waters: What?

    Hazel Grace Lancaster: What? Do you think that is cool? Or something? You just ruined the whole thing.

    Augustus Waters: The whole thing?

    Hazel Grace Lancaster: Yes, this whole thing.

    Hazel Grace Lancaster: Even though you have freaking cancer, you are willing to give money to corporation for a chance to acquire even more cancer? Let me just assure you that not being able to breathe? SUCKS. Totally disappointing. Totally.

    Augustus Waters: They don't kill you unless you light them. And I've never lit one. It's a metaphor, see: you put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing. A metaphor.