Hi Guys,
Hope you have all been well. Apologies for my lack of posts, I am ashamed to say that I am currently 3 challenges behind but I will be catching up with all challenges by the end of today.
So today the topic is: "Your favourite quote". This was easy peasy for me as opposed to the other ones; this quote has been my favourite since school and it is ...*drumroll*... "Love is eternal for as long as it lasts".
Now, I don't know if I am cheating once again, but what defines a quote exactly? This is what wikipedia defines a quote as: "Quotation is used in text to indicate the words of another speaker or writer."
With that definition in mind I hold up my hands and admit that my 'favourite quote' is in fact not technically a quote because it was never said by anyone (to be fair, for the past 18 years I thought that this was a quote from the brilliant Oscar Wilde - but after much googling I admit that I am wrong, and slightly sad but nevermind).
There is a very very similiar quote but minus one word, and for me, it's that one word which makes my quote so amazing. The common quote is "Love is eternal as long as it lasts". This particular quote was from the mouth/pen of Vinicius de Moraes and I believe it was part of a song. (BTW, it's missing the word "for").
But anyway, my love for my fake quote (which I guess, if you like it, you can say it's MY quote!!!) is for several reasons, but the main reason is because when i (mis)heard it it helped to form the person that I am now. I try to be a happy person and to please other people and find joy in everything (at least when I'm around other people - I wallow in misery only behind closed doors) and some of my inspiration and motivation comes from the fake quote.
A lot of people get down beaten, spiteful, cynical, miserable, grumpy, unkind (and all the other crappy grey words you can think of) because they feel disappointed or let down by themselves, family, friends, situations, etc but I try not to let this happen to me. I try to cherish the moment as it is. To me, the part "for as long as it lasts" plays a huge importance in my approach to life. Like I spoke about in an earlier blog, I don't have any regrets. I might have done stuff I'm ashamed of or not entirely happy with, but at the moment I did it I thought it was ok and so i take that feeling or thought forward with me, not the aftermath of misery!!
It's difficult to explain (I'm much better at explaining why it's my fav quote face to face) - but I think if you know me even as an acquintance you can imagine why I like this quote and why it inspires me.
But in the sense it was (not!) written for - LUUURVE. I see people sad all the time about break ups, fights, seperations etc and everyone seems to forget the love that was shared and was real, even if it was 3mins or 33 years - for me the 'eternal' bit of the quote means real and deep and true. SO if anyone said that they'd "love me forever" I would believe it even if 1 day later we broke up, because I'd hope that the person meant it at the time it was said and that's enough for me.
I'll stop here cos I could go on and on and on trying to explain myself, and I've got a few more posts to get out tonight!!
:)
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