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Man I almost lost it watching The Time Traveler's Wife...
Here's the set up. See, the main character randomly jumps forward or backwards along his own time line but he's unable to affect anything directly or control when and where he jumps to or how long until he jumps back into his regular chronology..OK... Well there's this one scene where the protagonist (at age 30 or 40 something) goes back in time and is sitting next to his mom that died when he was 6. Of course she doesn't know this 30-something year old man next to her, and so he approaches the situation like a regular fan of hers. He tells her he's a huge fan of her singing (The two were singing together in the car when she crashed and died...apparently she's a recording artist or opera singer or something). Having watched his mom die 100 times over --first when he was 6 and later in subsequent trips to his past, he told her that he wished his wife could one day hear her sing. She says, "Maybe she will one day" and smiles... choking on the emotion of it all, he says, "Your son loves you very much", and with an other-wordly expression of omniscience, she replies "I know..."
And so here I am
Stuck.
I know it's just a movie and what not, but after having lost my mom 3 years ago sometimes I think about $%$+ like this. Aight let's be real, all the time I sit back and think about $%$+ JUST like this. Too many comic books and sci-fi movies. All the good guys get wished back to life somehow.. whatever... look I'm not gonna weigh ya'll down with the woe-is-me stuff but I guess it's like the only way to get past knowing I'll never have that moment of, "Aye mom... there's this girl I sorta like" ever again is to block it out. Then outta nowhere, there's a movie or song that perfectly captures a feeling I was just having. This was that feeling and that movie scene.. just throwing that out there..
Oh well, that's all I got. Cool Story, yeah yeah... share yours....or not... doesn't matter.. Later.
Here's the set up. See, the main character randomly jumps forward or backwards along his own time line but he's unable to affect anything directly or control when and where he jumps to or how long until he jumps back into his regular chronology..OK... Well there's this one scene where the protagonist (at age 30 or 40 something) goes back in time and is sitting next to his mom that died when he was 6. Of course she doesn't know this 30-something year old man next to her, and so he approaches the situation like a regular fan of hers. He tells her he's a huge fan of her singing (The two were singing together in the car when she crashed and died...apparently she's a recording artist or opera singer or something). Having watched his mom die 100 times over --first when he was 6 and later in subsequent trips to his past, he told her that he wished his wife could one day hear her sing. She says, "Maybe she will one day" and smiles... choking on the emotion of it all, he says, "Your son loves you very much", and with an other-wordly expression of omniscience, she replies "I know..."
And so here I am
Stuck.
I know it's just a movie and what not, but after having lost my mom 3 years ago sometimes I think about $%$+ like this. Aight let's be real, all the time I sit back and think about $%$+ JUST like this. Too many comic books and sci-fi movies. All the good guys get wished back to life somehow.. whatever... look I'm not gonna weigh ya'll down with the woe-is-me stuff but I guess it's like the only way to get past knowing I'll never have that moment of, "Aye mom... there's this girl I sorta like" ever again is to block it out. Then outta nowhere, there's a movie or song that perfectly captures a feeling I was just having. This was that feeling and that movie scene.. just throwing that out there..
Oh well, that's all I got. Cool Story, yeah yeah... share yours....or not... doesn't matter.. Later.
