Pearl Harbour

I saw two movies tonight : one was Pearl Harbour which was first released several years ago. This was a love story set against the backdrop of the Second World War where a navy pilot fell in love with and later married his best friend's girlfriend after the friend was reportedly killed in a combat mission. Later the friend turns up alive and the whole story evolves around the moving relationship between the three main characters in the story. In the final combat mission, the one who married the girl is killed and the girl is reunited back with her first love.

These days scenes where someone dies in the story hits much more closer to home as I remember how Kathryn left us. My mind is taken back to the final moments just before she died. Holding her and just being there with her and for her is something precious that is etched in our hearts and minds forever.

The second was a movie entitled The Time Traveler's Wife where a man who was one of the main characters in the story was able to travel in time from the past or the future to moments in his past or future where he could see fleeting scenes of his life and afterwards disappears once again into time. Towards the end of the story, he sees himself in a future scene where he dies in a shooting accident. The man finally dies and after his death he reappears back to his wife and young daughter where they were happily reunited even for a brief moment before he once again fades away into time.

The reality is that we can't travel through time but sometimes I wonder how nice it would be if we could. Could we travel back and change parts of past events? Could we travel through this divide called time and just be able to catch a glimpse of our loved ones even for a moment in time? Just holding them and loving them? I know we must begin somehow to live in the present and not in the past. That, is the challenging part.



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