Eternity of Summer

Just got out of seeing 500 Days of Summer. It was the best movie I've ever seen. All my points of view on love, on relationships. All of it is explained through detail in one movie. I didnt think it was possible, but according to this movie it is, and I most definitely agree that it is.

Life is absurd, the things that happen to us, the things we go through on a daily basis. Now theres three ways to explain why things like this happen.

Fate. A higher power that controls our lives and has things all worked out from begining to end. Maybe the majority of people believe in this due to religion? Or perhaps its because we look at the past and realize thats whats shaped us to what we are and what we should be in our future. So we feel as if our future as already been planned out for us. The movie does a great job explaining this in the begining with clips of the two from their childhood. Showing how they grew up and how it has effected them in their future. Although the movie goes off-course from this and proves to us that their past has nothing to do with the future, and that fate and this higher power have no real meaning in our lives because its our decisions our choices, that yes can be effected by our past experiences and usually are. Thats what makes us choose what we feel would be best for us, but the reason why we feel this way is not because of the way the past experience played out, but rather, what was more enjoyable for us. What we choose is what we want and what we want is happiness and fate has no jurisdiction for something like this.

Existentialism. The belief that fate is unreal, and that things happen for no reason. That past experiences are the past and the only TRUE meaning of life is the meaning of the moment that you are living in. Our existence is our meaning. Theres no reason for it. Its just how it is. Random happenings made this day the way it is, and the decisions you make in that day are all based upon how you feel in that direct moment That you should just take action because action is the only way that the moment will ever make life happen.

Determinism. That life is based upon past experiences. Need I say more? I think that all my other paragraphs pretty much explain what determinism is. But to give you a very short one sentence synopsis. Your life is already determined by the way that it has played out in the past, and that the future will only change, or even just stay the same. It only depends on the moment and the circumstances.

Anyways. love. How can I even explain it. Tom was right. You'll know what it is. Its not even a feeling. Its just what happens. Love happens. Accept it.

Have a Good One.