BLOG FROM THE PAST: The Notebook

Dear Jenny Rei,

(posted August 26, 2007)

the notebook..

i was just browsing the downloaded movies on this pc's external hard disk when i saw the title "the notebook"..  hmm, sounds familiar to me..  ah!  that was one of donna's favorite movie..  and so i watched it while my kids are playing beside me..

it seems like a sad movie judging from the introduction - sad background music and environment..  i thought mga olds ang bida, yun pala the movie evolves on the flash back..  then there they are - allie and noah..

it was a love at first sight for noah and he really made some effort to get close with allie..  then eventually, after some sorta crazy yet romantic moves, allie fell in love with noah too..

crazily, madly, deeply, i may add..  they always kissed hungrily whenever possible..  and they're truly happy being together..  they just do simple things but the enjoyment and the contentment of just being together touched me the most..  they even planned their dream house together..

but just like any other love story, its never without conflicts..  yeah, the usual "langit ka at lupa ako" thing..  allie's parents didn't approve noah for he's just a poor guy..  and so they've decided to push through allie's education elsewhere - a place they knew he could never reach her..

they fought before they part ways, but i think its just a bluff fight..  noah's too angry to face the truth that allie's going away but more angry to himself 'coz he can't do anything..  and allie's hurting because neither of them can't do anything about it..

and so she went the next morning but couldn't leave without saying proper goodbye to him, but he wasn't there..  and so with a heavy heart she just asked his friend to tell noah how much she loves him..  when noah arrived and learned that she dropped by, he tried to go for her, but he was too late..

though devastated beyond compare, noah still tries to bridge the distance by writing her letters..  everyday he wrote one for allie and everyday he was hoping she would answer..  for 1 year, he sent her 365 letters but all of it remained unanswered..  the reason?  allie's mother kept all the letters without her knowledge..  both heartbroken for not receiving any from each other, little did they know that they both suffer a cruel fate..

then they both decided to move on..  but fate has different plans for them..  after 6 or 7 years, their path crossed again..

noah just completed their so-called dream house..  it was indeed a very nice house..  wish i could have a house like that too ü..  still single and living a monotonous life alone..  while allie is now engaged to be married..  on her gown fitting, he just saw noah's picture on the newspaper..  and the pressure hit her as she fell unconscious..

thinking that they seem to have an unfinished business, allie came to noah's place with a lousy reason of just checking him out..  her visit turned out fine, they seem to have accepted their fate until the next morning when she came back, all memories came pouring in along with the heavy rain..

she confronted him for not writing and he explained his side as a retaliation, until they both realized that they've lived a years played by twisted fate..  and right then and there, they made love..  so passionate, so full of emotions - they both poured their longing on that one hell of a bonding..

for 6 or 7 years they never cease loving each other..  when they thought they have forgotten each other, they moved on and live their life the way they want to..  only to realized that they just put their love in the innermost part of their heart and cherished it there in their own special way..

she broke up with her fiancè and live with noah as an ending and they both live happily ever after..  or so i think..  seems like she had a accident on the later part of their marriage that caused her to have a..  i think partial amnesia or something 'coz her memories just come and go..  oh, i remember!  it was Alzheimer’s disease.

later i found out that she kept a journal of their love story, dedicated to noah of course with a notes saying "read this to me and i'll come back to you"..  and so he did, on that home for the aged where they now lived, he kept reading their story to her eventhough she couldn't recognized him..  until one night when she did, he slept beside her and they died together..

hmm..  i wonder if that could happen in real life..  not the dying together, silly..  but that loving each other still despite the years of being separated, despite of oh-so-many things that could happen in all those years..  maybe yes, maybe no..  or just maybe..

August 26, 2007 in Senseless Thoughts | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)