Before Sunrise
What is love?
Apart from being a great tune from Haddaway, the question and philosophy behind what love is has been a cause of debate for centuries. Its definition changes drastically from person to person, and that’s the beauty of it. People express love in so many differing ways, and I, alongside most other human beings, find that really neat.
Maybe it’s the small things? Like searching for eachother in a crowd, or repeated, cozy rituals such as going on a walk together, texting endlessly, or wishing eachother a happy birthday once it falls upon the date. Perhaps you find great comfort in sensual, physical affections, like a warm hug, deep kiss, or something like holding hands, never to even flirt with the thought of leaving that special someone’s grasp? Whilst it can often be deemed a superficial quality, maybe you simply just adore how someone looks, finding a sense of euphoria in memorising every inch of their face? I mean Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are stunning looking human beings, after all. Some people like to ponder the bigger picture, and plan out love, and how they’ll live with it throughout their years. Stuff like their wedding, honeymoon, kids. How they’ll grow old together, and how they’ll reminisce on how it all started. The best thing about love, as Before Sunrise so passionately describes, is that it has an expiration date. It’s never permanent, just as we too aren’t eternal. An ugly breakup may put it to an end, maybe nature intervenes, and one is taken away from the other, or perhaps you only meet once. But that’s what allows us to embrace it while we can. To take the extra moments to appreciate eachother, to look for eachother in the crowd. To hug and kiss, to have kids and marry, to grow old and die in peace. Because we have the knowledge that we’re in it together, no matter how it pans out.
BRO I HAVE SCHOOL IN LIKE 5 HOURS I FINISHED WATCHING THIS SHIT AT LIKE 2AM HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO COPE I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT ARE THEY OKAY I’M GONNA DIE