ELIZABETHTOWN is a new addition to my collection of movies I tend to connect at a personal level. Thank you, Cameron Crowe for coming up with something that defines the infinite misconceptions about life and beauty in insanity.
What made the movie click was the real-ness of the characters and the struggles they face, from the most life-changing to the daily decays circumstances bring forth. And of course, I’ll have Orlando Bloom anytime of the week (nobody dare resent me!). Anyway, life does have a funny way of putting things in a particular order. For example, the mere fact that I am, somehow, relocated to Tagbilaran with no pre-meditation…but before I move on, I’d rather start from the very beginning…
why i came to Silliman to take up nursing?
–> was having dinner with the whole clan to wish me well on my trip to Silliman to take the entrance exam (i missed the opportunity in cdo due unavoidable circumstances). Course in mind? BS Biology or Medical Technology. In the middle of our conversations around the table, was the then-blooming profession of Nursing. How many people, even doctors, are taking up the course. Right there and then, they all decided I take up nursing as a pre-med course, which I gamely accepted. Anything that leads to medicine, I’m in! Fastforward to 5 years…zilch!
why in tagbilaran?
–>my plans are as definite as quicksand. My mother told me that I should be off to London by June this year…and yet, no action has been made to get me there (except for the passport and supporting documents). No job vacancies in CDO as of the moment. Came an opportunity for an extensive exposure here , hence, I am again plucked off from the comforts of my living room and dvds, into the battlefields of professional nursing. The girl with no permanent address.
So you see, the major events in my life are rarely planned, and it’s quite devastating. I am fully aware of my own personhood, but regardless of that, I am reduced to being utterly dependent…which makes it more devastating. Somehow I just think that parents or elders do know whats best for you and asserting for whatever it is that you intend to do is idealistic. And there is a thin line between idealism and stupidity… submission.
But it doesnt end here… there is a whole world of possibilities and changes out there. All it takes is the courage to risk what’s routine, and safe, and comfartable…
Where am I in Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown? the substitute of the real thing…
