Jim and I had a lot of unique opportunities to see many movies "on the big screen" because when you're on the road there is one thing that is the same in every town... and that is... there's a movie theater. Even on vacation, we'd find a theater. We found one when we were in Oregon. And since we were on vacation I got to pick the movie. So I picked Tristan & Isolde (and Jim was such a dear to sit through it).
Last week the movie was playing on t.v. and I flipped past it because I knew I couldn't sit through it right now...
Then I found it in the $5 bin at K-mart.
Then I read a paragraph (through something quite random and completely unrelated to the movie itself) about Isolde. Isolde loved a man she could not have because of a situation she was personally in. It's a classic love triangle story. As such, it has been said, that she is a type of goddess of undying love. A sign that the love you share is eternal, regardless of the situation... just like the love Jim and I continue to share.
With this many pushes of the movie in front of me this week I decided I better put the DVD in tonight... and was doing okay until the ending scene...
As Tristan lays dying in Isolde's arms on the river bank she says, "Know that I love you Tristan. Wherever you go, whatever you see. I will always be with you."
And Tristan replies, as he takes his final breath, "You were right. I don't know if life is greater than death. But love was more than either."
Thanks Babe. I needed that tonight... even if it took me thirty minutes to quit crying.
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