So, thankfully it started raining today, so I took advantage and sat down and watched a movie, one of my favorites actually. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. If you've never seen it, do. It's not perfectly clean, but it breaks away from the traditional love-stories and is a feast for the eyes and the mind.
It's a story about two random people; Joel Barrish and Clementine Crizenski. It's Valentines day and Joel wakes up with horrible, hangover-type symptoms, pages from his journal missing, new pajamas he doesn't remember putting on, let alone owning and a huge gash/dent on his car that is both horrible and inexplicable. As he is heading to work, he randomly decides to ditch work and go to the freezing, snowy beaches of Montauk, NY. Ducking out of the snow, he sits down to coffee in a little diner across from a strange but attractive woman with wild blue hair and a bright orange sweater. I won't ruin it for you, you'll just have to watch it for yourself. But, the ending sums up what I truly believe about being in a committed relationship, especially when they get hard.
Here it is: Despite faults, flaws, things that drive you crazy about the person you love, at the end of the day you CHOSE. Would you rather live with the imperfections, the annoying habits, the heartache and heartbreak they sometimes give you, or be alone? Would you rather deal or do without them?
In the end you CHOSE to love them, and ignore the toilet seat being left up for the millionth time. You CHOSE to love them. Love is accepting the good and bad, the beautiful and the ugly, soaking in each and every memory and loving the person despite the fact that they're not perfect.
Change your heart. It will astound you :)
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