distraction: I'm realizing that not all chick flick full movies on youtube are equal.
The movie ended, naturally enough, with a bride walking down the aisle. And this is how my thoughts went:
"Her dress is really simple. It kinda looks like a normal dress. But it's white. I guess white is what makes a bridal dress a bridal dress. I'm sure the groom thinks she's simply beautiful. They always do. That she's more beautiful on her wedding day than ever. That's what my groom's going to think. Because I'll be all dressed up. And I'm not usually like that. My hair, ugh. That's how he'll usually see it. But on my wedding day it'll be all dolled up. But before the wedding day he'll still love me."
And then, piercing into my thoughts, I realized what is true most of the times I watch a romantic mushy movie:
I assume he's real.
It's not an "if" this happens to me, or "if" there's a guy out there. I just assume the groom. I assume there exists a guy (as if it already were a fact) that accepts me as I am and totally loves me and totally thinks I'm beautiful.
And then, oh wait, he. doesn't. exist. -- at least not yet.
But no, he does. :) In my mind he does. He always has. And perhaps one day my Berkeley-esque* reality will change into true, physical reality.
~*~
You know what? I think that is God's design. He made us to experience tangible hope. He made us to believe in the invisible. He made us to live for the unknown future.
That might be taking it too far, because I'm not going to attribute to God my mental reality of the man that loves me and exists (only in my mind). But it's at least interesting to think that yeah, God did make us to see as if seeing the invisible.
Ciao.
*George Berkeley, philospher. Quote from The Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy: "He was a talented metaphysician famous for defending idealism, that is, the view that reality consists exclusively of minds and their ideas."
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