OK I am such a sucker. I have a good, dear friend tell me that I just had to see the movie "The Holiday". So I went and bought it based on such a glowing recommendation. Great, just what I need a romantic comedy, actually I love them, Love Actually is one of my favorite movies.
So what's the big deal about this movie, The Holiday? Well first, we just moved back from England in December. It is a place we both miss greatly, I do miss it something fierce, and I am such a fierce southerner too. Why, well for one the beautiful, no stunning countryside in southern England. No matter what you hear or think based on it, Surrey is a beautiful place. To be honest, southern England is a beautiful place with wonderful rolling hills and fields, a stunning place. I often wonder what it was like back in the 40's during WW II before modern technology caught up with it.(FYI there is a Pennsylvania in the UK. It's a real village and it's just a little backwater crossroads, maybe a dozen houses amongst the stunning rolling hills compared to such a huge state here.) Second England is the place I fell completely and madly in love with my wife all over again. The greatest weekend of my life, the two best days of my life were back in '05 on my 40th birthday. Actually we spent that weekend in France but no matter. I fell back, deeply in love with my wife while we lived in England.
So that leaves us back to the movie. Partially based in Surrey, no it's not snowy like that, I can only think of the wonderful memories of our time there. Even though I spent the entire time trying to get her to fall back in love with me, I truly loved every minute of it. Yes the saying "it's better to have loved and lost it then to have never loved" is so true. Yes I love her madly and deeply and I love England as much as I love being a southerner. I look forward to the day we can return to England.
You know what she said to me the other day, she wishes we, yes we, could live in both places. Yes, we both love England and love NC and yearn for the love that seems lost yet is only misplaced.
Last edited by catfan; 06/15/0703:49 AM.
If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive. - Mother Theresa
