Today I watched a movie on Astro, it was A Little Bit of Heaven. Ms D went on about it on Friday night said I had to watch it. I asked what was it about, she said it was about people you grow old with. Ms D said she cried so much while watching it that her eyes puffed up. Well me being such a sucker for sob movies searched for the repeat and recorded it to watch later.
So that was what I did this evening, watch the damn movie and cried I did buckets full ! Generally the movie was about Kate Hudson's character a woman who was successful in her career had a small circle of very good friends but had not found love. To cut the story short she got cancer, fell in love with her doctor and then consequently died.
The movie somehow struck a chord with the three of us. For me it wasn't about her finding love or how she was positive about everything and accepting death but it was about friendship. I found love, I lost love and maybe I will find it again, I don't know. It's not that, it's about finding and having people that you want to grow old with. That close circle of people that you can depend on, that makes you happy, don't judge you and with who you can be yourself.
I've always had that, the small circle of friends that at one point in time were the people you want to grow old with. As I age the members of that circle changed as my path in life turned a different corner. Some will remain, some will be lost, some will be added and some will just become acquaintances. I had a friend who I became friends with at the age of eighteen and who three years ago decided she no longer wanted to be my friend for some reason that I thought was not really right. On the flip side I also have a dear friend who was my room mate in boarding school and have known since we were thirteen and we share the same name ! She lives on the other side of the world and yet we communicate nearly everyday.
Husbands come and go, boyfriends come and go but true friends will stay and that to me is what A Little Bit of Heaven is, friendship :)
