You’ve seen this film before — hues of red dominating everything you lay your eyes on, cozy dinners with serenity the candlelight offers, sweets and flowers as main ingredients to top on an already perfect day. But what if this time, you view the film in black and white? A film that had lost its spark and came off cluttered — no sense of direction with some elements and parts missing. Will its dreariness gain its usual climatic scenes? Will the copious amount of dead air vanish and be filled with the purest form of act?
Celebration of fantasized ideal love — make your partner feel special by showering them affection on a random February day — isn’t the kind of love we’re only presumed to fulfill. For most, it’s grand and awe-inspiring, but for some, it revolves around practicing gaining back an intense feeling a human being inherently seeks and gives, that they once lost — relearning how to love and this time doing it right. Here’s to being capable of loving again!
Genzers are deemed to falter with their bottled-up feelings rather than show vulnerability to anyone — as conveying intimacy, for them, is nothing but a weakness. But here’s a reminder that being vulnerable enough to show affection to people close to your heart is braver than thinking you’re above love.
Shifting ANGLES
Months of listening to the same heart-rending Taylor Swift album while bawling your eyes out might seem to be the most dreadful part after saying “I think we have different priorities we need to focus on,” to the person with whom you both promised to always keep each other as a priority. But, it’s not that. It’s the scenes after that. It’s the relapses — the flashbacks on your film reels. Realization that healing a wound isn’t as easy as you imagined and fear of intimacy coupled with vulnerability will arise for a lengthy period. Succumb to that feeling, experience it, bits by bits — the only right way to heal an open wound. After that, you’ll just realize, “People come and people go.” Give yourself the same love you’ve always given others.
Reconnecting with CHARACTERS
What’s more thrilling than seeing your favorite characters reunite regardless of how minuscule their screen time is? After rumination, there’s no waste in allowing your heart to rejoin others’ hearts, afresh. Reunite, explore, meet new people, feel different sensations, set your heart ablaze, and experience everything like it’s your first time — with few people whom your heart truly deserves.
Build finer DIALOGUES
The way characters converse is aligned with the way we view their values and how remarkable their lines would be in our brains. And to make dialogues striking as they ever were, learn to make them realistic and senseful.
“Let’s grab a coffee!” When someone pulls this line up, you know the conversation’s about to get deep — it ain’t barely about grabbing coffee anymore but the life-altering talks when already sipping one. Type of dialogues you wished you had encountered sooner, hoped you’d had when everything was in shambles — it’s those types of dialogues that’ll echo in your mind even after walking home, getting undressed, washing your face, washing the dishes, and contemplating.
HOPE FOR A BETTER PLOT
If you ask me why I rated my top 5 favorite movies, 10 out of 10, I’d simply answer it’s due to their jaw-dropping plot twists. Plot twists are what keep the audience pumped and what keep the story running.
“Live for the hope of it all.” Pray silently to the universe, a manifestation of all the tremendous things the world can offer — for it to side with you this time. For things to work differently this time. You deserve it, your film earns to gain its hues back.
That’s all of the tips and ways I could think of to honor Saint Valentine, for someone who’s been lost in a seemingly inescapable black-and-white film in this generation. And if this isn’t too much to ask, if you’ve ever escaped that film or regained its climatic parts back, could you please tell me what it’s like?
