today after church i went with qi to e st gab's choir concert. last min kinda thing coz her friend ps-ed her. so i was e substitute. lol. e concert was surprisingly good, though the venue was abit out of the way. but its not that far from city hall actually. we shopped for awhile after that. and i had an ice cream cone :) andersen's rum and rasin is totally going into my list of things that are heaven.
i just saw these lyrics again. haven heard the song in a long while but it still strikes me that the lyrics are super sweet.
I'm Already There
He called her on the road
from a lonely cold hotel room
just to hear her say I love you one more time
but when he heard the sound
of the kids laughing in the background
he had to wipe away a tear from his eye
a little voice came on the phone
said daddy when you coming home
he said the first thing that came to his mind
I'm already there
take a look around
I'm the sunshine in your hair
I'm the shadow on the ground
I'm the whisper in the wind
I'm your imaginary friend
and I know I'm in your prayers
oh I'm already there
She got back on the phone
said I really miss you darling
don't worry about the kids they'll be alright
wish I was in your arms
lying right there beside you
but I know that I'll be in your dreams tonight
and I'll gently kiss your lips
touch you with my fingertips
so turn out the lights
and close your eyes
I'm already there
don't make a sound
I'm the beat in your heart
I'm the moonlight shining down
I'm the whisper in the wind
and I'll be there until the end
can you feel the love that we share
oh I'm already there
we may be a thousand miles apart
but I'll be with you wherever you are
I'm already there
take a look around
I'm the sunshine in your hair
I'm the shadow on the ground
I'm the whisper in the wind
and I'll be there until the end
can you feel the love that we share
oh I'm already there
omg dont u think its super sweet! at times like this it always makes me wonder how love can be so strong, that you can actually feel it when the person is not even physically there. reminding me of which, i read this really heartbreaking book. actually i read half of it then i stopped. it was too sad. no, honestly. its called anybody out there by marian keyes. its really heartbreaking! its basically about this woman who was involved in a car accident with her husband. she was badly injured but she survived but her husband died. when you first read theres no explanation of the past before, it just jumps into her recuperating at her parents home. so for the longest time i thought that her boyfriend had just dumped her. until about halfway thru then they explained about the accident and all. the past events were kinda intertwined in the narration of whats going on now. so i didnt realise what actually happened until quite late. it was so heartbreaking. i hate reading books which dont have happy endings! kinda limits the books i read but i really dont like reading books that have no endings or sad endings. and i dont see how this book can end happily. i did read the last few pages though, just to see what happened. i think she saw a really beautiful moth [one of the signs she was waiting for] and i think her husband's ex girlfriend had his child or sth. oh well. i dont wanna know what happened in between. haha. it was really sad coz they were a really loving couple, and they were like really meant to be together. its depressing that he died so soon. yes, i know, its fiction. still it doesnt make it any less heartbreaking reading about how she tried to cope with his death. oh well. that was another example of a love so strong that i think its incredible.
how many people actually get to experience something like that in their lifetime? the really old couples still holding hands and helping each other along, the look they still have in their eyes when they look at each other, and the way they still smile the smile when they look at each other, it actually really amazes me. because, its a really long time. and as you know, time heals all wounds, but it also erodes at love and emotions, making people forget why they got married in the first place. the mundane takes over and flaws start to irritate the shit out of each other. is the love of an already divorced couple any different from the love that a loving old couple had? i think when they started out the love was the same. the same love that makes people get married. but over time, one couple worked at it and it worked for them [forgive the pun], but one couple neglected it and it eventually became some sort of monster that ate at them until they couldn't bear to stay tgt anymore. i think the difference lies in their attitude, since its their attitude that actually shapes what they did or didnt do. sigh. its like one of the wonders of the world. haha. thats the difference between the love you see between two young people holding hands and the love you see between two wrinkled and slightly deaf and blind with age people holding hands. its different. you can see it. young people love because they need each other. the old couple need each other because they love each other. its what and who you love. and of course the scariest is loving for the sake of being in love. but lets not end up there.
If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. -Sir James M. Barrie
how true. in e end you can't bring anything with you to your grave. the only thing you can do is to leave your love and legacy to live on through the others still here.
i miss my grandma :( she popped into my head randomly during church today. her absence is the biggest and worst feeling silence ive ever heard in my life.
we should stop assuming that people know we love them. actually even if they do we should still tell them that we love them. just to remind them, and im sure they'd like to hear it. at least i like to hear it. haha but im sure everyone does too :) actions speak louder than words, but words remind them of the actions we took and the love we have for them. so..........you guys know what to do! haha. say it, you dont wanna have anything to regret nxt time.
live well. and as always, i love you guys! have a good week ahead :)
a star fell from the sky;
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