Waiting

"I sometimes feel like I'm invisible. As if no one can see me at all. I never felt that when I lived at the lake house. It's the one place I felt most like my true self" - Kate (The Lake House)

Very few movies move me. Or more accurately, have the ability to touch some of the deepest recesses of my heart. This is one. The Lake House.

Like Kate there are places I go where I feel most at like my true self. Like Kate I enjoy the simple pleasures of solitude, of life, and in reading. And like Kate, I'm waiting; for that "someone with whom I can give my whole heart to". Easier said than done. Perhaps.

The movie centres around two characters Kate and Alex, two strangers who connect through time, through the written word. This, I partiularly enjoyed - the sincerity of their sharing. The timelessness of time. I could not help but smile at such an initimate a thought.

Along with the movie, the abundant weddings I've been attending, and my recent travels alone, it is slowly occuring to me how lovely it must be to share your life with someone.

Not particularly headline news for anyone, but news for me, nevertheless.

My parents asking why it's been so long since I'd seen anyone came out of the blue, but not surprising considering the context. And one could not help but enjoy the humour of being seated on a table with four other couples, let alone, with the infamous 'blue smurf'.

In all seriousness, simply put, I do think it would be lovely. So, thanks to Em and Lap for their inspiration.

I desire the simple and slow life. Believe it or not even the life of a housewife with a vegetable patch in the backyard whipping up endless creations in the kitchen and tending to my family. I recall times in Malaysia cooking with Sui's grandma peeling tons and tons of garlic onions amongst other cooking wonders. I enjoyed the love she exuded. Very similar to my own grandmother. I simply love this simplicity of living.

Having said all this, yes I admit I am a bit of a romantic, yes I have a pragmatic idealism about me, and yes it isn't easy for me to trust someone with my heart. But maybe, just maybe, I'm thinking, it might be worth it.

Like Kate and Alex, the time (literally) wasn't right. But it was in the waiting that got me. Some things are simply timeless.