ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF A SPOTLESS MIND

Wow! What a fuckin brillantly told movie.

What if you had the chance..

1. TO ERASE the memories and heartaches caused by paths once taken
2. TO TURN AWAY from taking a path that you know will eventually bring heartaches

It made me think about how natural it is to let the fears of "what if" cripple us from opening up our wounded hearts again. What if he cheats? What if he abandons me like the other one? What if his loud ways doesnt click with my quiet ways? What if we end up resenting what we first found compelling in each other? what if it ends bad? what if? what if?

The film challenges us to love anyway and to say - Lets hurt... lets laugh and fight and cry. Lets share, lets play, lets break up and then lets get back together again... isn't life all the more richer having done all that... then to not have chased anything at all... or even worse, to ERASE the chases in the past that brought such intense joy and pain?

I am encouraged to let go of trying to regulate the joys and minimize the pain and instead, learning to embrace them all as a part of the journey.

So cheesy but so true !