On bubbles…

     “If you love someone, you say it right then… out loud… or the moment just passes you by…”

- excerpt from the movie, My Best Friend’s Wedding

     James and I were having our dinner at the Seaside Boulevard earlier in silence.  When suddenly, a little girl who was sitting several feet away starting blowing bubbles through the air.  The wind blew the bubbles towards our direction.  James and I looked at each other through the tiny orbs floating about and we both smiled; the frosty silence between us suddenly replaced by a comfortable kind of silence.  A silence which affirms that profound love doesn’t always need words to express itself.  Another perfect moment.

     It was then that I realized that each moment we have in our life is like a bubble.  No matter which direction the wind tosses it and no matter how far it reaches or how high it soars, it can only last for so long.  Just a fleeting prism orb which diffuses light for a while and then, it’s gone as suddenly as it came into being. 

     It also brought to mind the excerpt above from the movie My Best Friend’s Wedding.  Sometimes, there are things we want to do and words we want to say that we suppress for whatever reason.  Maybe because of doubt.  Maybe because of fear.  But it is this hesitation that causes the moment to just pass by.  The opportunity gone… the chance lost.  Like a fragile bubble’s lifespan, the moment is gone too soon.  And then all that is left is the gnawing regret… and the unanswered questions.

     I guess now I’ve come to fully understand what the phrase live life to the fullest means.  And I have resolved never to let any moment pass me by.  In life… in love… I would relish moment by moment.