Love is all around us

maj 25th, 2008

Getting out of the metro today, while taking the escalator up to the surface, I got a glimpse of a little goodbye scene. A woman was smiling, crying, waving at her family; four persons standing outside by a pram and waving back.

I instantly got a flashback to the opening scene of ‘Love Actually’:

“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there – fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge – they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaking suspicion love actually is all around.”

Entry Filed under: Denmark,Life,Movies,Reflections

2 Comments Add your own

  • 1. Serina  |  maj 25th, 2008 at 19:17

    Sweet :)

  • 2. Heather  |  juni 7th, 2008 at 23:45

    This reminded me of something else I read once in a book called Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, “I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run into each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience of stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”

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