I don’t read that many romance books and when I do, they’re the sort of book that I’ll read straight through very quickly and then pick up a different book. I read the book “Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks back earlier in the year sometime and it really touched me, in a personal way.
On one of my recent flights, I watched the movie. As always, the movie differs greatly from the book. A lot of scenes are missing and some are smushed together to be able to fit everything into the timeframe. Some of the scenes that were cut take away from the emotions and the storyline, yet at the same time, the movie is significantly more real than the book.
Watching the movie feels like I am re-living all of the emotions that ran through me while I was reading the book several months ago.
Emotions can’t be cut. 18 hour visits aren’t really long enough. The premise of the movie: John, a soldier in the army, meets Savannah while he’s on leave and she’s on spring break. They fall in love, but the military keeps them apart, except for out of order letters by snail mail and extremely short visits while he’s on leave.
To my fellow co-op graduates and current co-op graduates, this almost sounds like it could be the same as some of the relationship situations that we have been in since we started the co-op program, moving every 4 months.
But how do we ever know if we made the “right” decision about a relationship? It’s impossible to ever know if a decision we make is the correct one amongst all the options in front of us with varying degrees of present and future unhappiness.
I’m learning that time seems to pass significantly faster when there’s no end timeframe in the current situation in sight. This past month has flown by and on Canada Day, I will celebrate my 4 months at my job. I can definitely say that I don’t miss constantly living while looking forward to the next term break or the next long weekend.
Dear John by Nicholas Sparks
I don’t read that many romance books and when I do, they’re the sort of book that I’ll read straight through very quickly and then pick up a different book. I read the book “Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks back earlier in the year sometime and it really touched me, in a personal way.
On one of my recent flights, I watched the movie. As always, the movie differs greatly from the book. A lot of scenes are missing and some are smushed together to be able to fit everything into the timeframe. Some of the scenes that were cut take away from the emotions and the storyline, yet at the same time, the movie is significantly more real than the book.
Watching the movie feels like I am re-living all of the emotions that ran through me while I was reading the book several months ago.
Emotions can’t be cut. 18 hour visits aren’t really long enough. The premise of the movie: John, a soldier in the army, meets Savannah while he’s on leave and she’s on spring break. They fall in love, but the military keeps them apart, except for out of order letters by snail mail and extremely short visits while he’s on leave.
To my fellow co-op graduates and current co-op graduates, this almost sounds like it could be the same as some of the relationship situations that we have been in since we started the co-op program, moving every 4 months.
But how do we ever know if we made the “right” decision about a relationship? It’s impossible to ever know if a decision we make is the correct one amongst all the options in front of us with varying degrees of present and future unhappiness.
I’m learning that time seems to pass significantly faster when there’s no end timeframe in the current situation in sight. This past month has flown by and on Canada Day, I will celebrate my 4 months at my job. I can definitely say that I don’t miss constantly living while looking forward to the next term break or the next long weekend.