"I Have Just Met You, And I Love You!"

"I Have Just Met You, And I Love You!"

Maybe a change in blogging style might help me blog more.

It's funny how epiphanies find people in the strangest of places. The movie with my class after National Day celebrations at school was an almost unanimous choice. "Up" was something I'd been looking forward to, and it never let me down.

Dug's appearance was one of typical nostalgic comedy that would expectedly follow from a talking animal, yet the simple line that he spoke that seemed so touching in a caramel and gummy bear kind of way - "I Have Just Met You, And I Love You!". It had me laughing for awhile, yet the line had lingered on in my mind beyond that movie, beyond that day.

Disney movies often have poetic messages behind their movies that I can't get enough of, and the line was something that hit me hard in the head. Love wouldn't be the first thing I'd express to a roly-poly "wilderness explorer!" and a man with a wrinkly cube for a head tied to a house floating with more balloons than a national day parade. A lot of confusion, maybe, but not love.

Perhaps that single catch-phrase is something we can adopt a little more often in our largely solitary lives. We were taught not to talk to strangers, don't accept gifts from people we don't know and to scream for help when an uncle asks whether "you want me show you something, girl?". True it may be, when we were defenseless toddlers that knew only to laugh when we're happy, and scream when we're not. But the same mindset may already be obsolete when our discretion is more reliable and we can learn to meet new people. Suspicion is the last thing that would help in meeting the next best friend in your life - love at first sight should be a common practice.

Why not give it a try? When you just meet someone, love them.