"The Notebook" and time //edited

SPOILER WARNING: THE NOTEBOOK

If you are like me, and hate when ONE word is simply UTTERED about a movie or book before I watch/read it, and you haven't read/watched The Notebook but are planning/would like to, then I suggest you don't read this blog lol. :D

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:bismillah:

:salam:

Alright so you're probably wondering why I'm going to discuss "The Notebook".. Hmm actually I'm wondering that myself lol. I just felt like typing something, and I just finished reading this book, and I came across a sentence and then I started thinking about it and about life and getting married and getting older and dying of old age. :S Where my mind wanders these days...

Anyway, this book is pretty much.. unbelieveable. The plot is so "fairy talish" but the author put it in a way where people wil actually believe it could possible to happen to at least one in a million couples out there. :S I dunno. Maybe not. It was still pretty fairy talish, I guess. I mean you read the book, boy meets girl, they get separated for ever, girl gets engaged to rich, successful lawyer, girl goes back to tell boy news, they fall in love once again, realize they'd never fallen out of love in the first place, girl goes back tells fiance she's ditching him, and the books forwards like, 45 years. The ending was amazing. I found it SO CUTE that they were still so helplessly in love, even like when they were REALLY OLD. lol. I know that's judgemental of me but I dunno you see grandparents talking to their grandchildren giving them money and stuff. Sometimes bickering but most of the time content with the life they've shared together. But these two were unbelievable. And even after she got diagnosed by Alzheimer's, and she forgets her husband most of the time, she still.. i dunno remembers him in her own way and it's so cute. That's the only adjective I can use to describe this lol. And when she actually calls him by his name, those 2 times, i was like awww ^_^.

Anyway, the sentence where my mind started wandering today was *cough* page 211, "I am a sinner with many faults and a man who believes in magic, but I am too old to change and too old to care."

By sinner, I don't really know what he means because most of his life was forwarded lol xD. But it was the last part, "too old to change and too old to care" that really caught my attention. I mean, here I am.. 16 years old, with basically my whole life left lol. Allahu a3lam when I'm going to die, for all I know, it might be tomorrow. Or now. While I'm typing this. Or when I'm done. Darn I really should be memorizing some Qur'an now instead of typing this now that I think about it. O.o

Anyway I'm thinking, well I don't think there are any super old muslims on the net right now they're probably just spending their time doing useful stuff like being with their family's and extra acts of worship inshAllah Allah yekhaleehom. Or gambling in Vegas. (That was a joke. :D)

But for us, all of us who still may inshAllah have our whole lives to live. We should get our acts together and not WASTE it and stuff. Noah was saying he's too old to change and too old to care right. But now, we're still young, and if not, we still SHOULD try to care and change for the better. I know when I'm older inshAllah I wanna reflect upon the past and not feel as if my whole life was a waste and die knowing I just threw time in the trash. I want to feel happy, feel at ease, know that I have spent my time wisely and efficiently and done what I have wanted to do. I do have a life-goal-to-do-list kind of thing, but I'd rather keep it personal. :)

Anyway I'm rambling and I'm not sure who'll read this. But the whole point actually (besides raving about The Notebook), was to remind you how important time is and not to let it go to waste. It WILL go fast. You won't believe it till you're at the end of the road, thinking, "Wow, that went by really fast." Sure IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO CHANGE and REPENT and ASK FOR FORGIVENESS until the first of the major signs of the Qiyama takes place, but why wait? Why not take action now, and feel good about yourself and NOT think you've wasted your whole life, you know? :S Besides, I wasn't worried about Noah :S *cough* Iamme. xD First of all he's not Muslim lol xD And I mean it's not too late to become Muslim but that's not the point. He was content with his life and with the road he took and everything. But just that sentence made my mind start pondering. :P Anyway.. I'll stop talking now haha. Thanks for reading this all the way through. :D

Fi amanillah,

-Razaan