I had never seen Forest Gump before last night. I did catch a glimpse or two, but never watched the whole movie. It was on TV and, I was very motivated to watch it... and I have to say, “I loved it”... it’s very simple yet so overwhelming... maybe, because a lot of things in the last couple of months have not gone so dandy in my life … but there is so much hope… I remember my mom talking to me about hope when I was in high school. One of our relatives had not managed their money well and had problems even putting food on their plates… she'd explained to me that hope was the only thing keeping them alive… otherwise what was the point of living… “Hope is a walking dream”, it truly is, the only difference is that you hope with your eyes open. I do not know what life holds for me in the future, and totally unknown about my so-called “destiny”… Like Forest wonders what his destiny was, I do that all the time… “I don't know if we each have our own destiny, or if we're all just floating' around accidental-like on a breeze. I think its a bit of both, but may be we try too hard at times.… to figure things out. I’ve been trying to figure out why things don’t go the way you plan them to. I've always said, “You don’t fall in love with someone instantly it is just infatuation, that love grows on you,” but along the way I seem to take things for granted it is ironic how we learn our lesson’s from things that we never want to happen. I have definitely changed, and learned that I am getting better about moving on easier... It is definitely hard to move on when you tend to remember things, like the clothes the people were wearing when you first met them Things you talked about. Your gift to your ex-girl friend on valentines day, these are a few examples of what you thought in the past. It’s crazy, How I wish, I could remember the things I read. “You know it's funny what a young man recollects?’ Cause I don't remember being' born. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas, and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time; I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world.” It’s an unexplainable phenomenon; do you remember the things you want to remember? Is your mind in a different state for you to remember some things and not others? I do not know the answers to all this and no I’m not going to start searching for it either. I’m not sure if not remembering things is good either. It would suck not to remember the first time you feel in love, for those of us who do believe that one could fall in love more than once. First time you had your heart broken, or your first high school crush… I really do believe that you grow as human being with each of these unique experiences. Forest was told to run, because that is what he did best every time he ran away from something he made sure he ran back to the things, people and places that were important to him. We over analyze our life way too much, we hardly forgive, and we hold grudges to our grave. Forest on the other hand is what every man should strive to be. We all realize he wasn’t the smartest person in the world, but he had passion, diligence, and he could love unconditionally. It didn’t matter if he was loved back, betrayed, or people were not grateful for what he had done, but he always did the right thing… the right thing to him. And at the end it worked out Forest, Jenny was his at last, not for very long, but he cherished every moment he spent with her. “Why don't you love me, Jenny? I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is”. We don’t need to be smart to realize what love is and more importantly how to love. More importantly how to always be there for the other person when that person has never been there for you. How to keep your promise’s long after you have made them and how to stand up for things you believe in, even in the most difficult of circumstances. People probably find me a little on the loose side just, because the fact that, I am comparing Forest Gump with “real life situations”. I guess you could say.” I am just a dreamer who does a lot of hoping, who always wanted to figure out what he was destined for”. Who always looked back in life and saw all the mistakes he'd made, but never did do a whole lot to not make those mistakes again.
Can a movie really change a person? Can something be so fictional be so real and mesmerizing that one looks back at his/her life and wonders WOW change is necessary? I have not just changed in a day, because I watched Forest Gump on a Sunday night. It has been a process for a month and a half. Forest made me want to run towards whom, I really want to be and, I am going to try my best to do that. Thanks Forest and Jenny’s always loved you she just did not know how to express it, and yeah she was always your girl.