Moments of happiness

(Warning: This is a soppy post!)

Nearly two hours of Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal humping made me realise something this evening.

"Just how happy I am in this moment with you... And it doesn’t matter if I have ten thousand more moments like this, or just this one because it’s all the same. Right now, this moment. I have this"

I know real life isn't like the movies, although it seems like it sometimes, but this quote struck a chord with me. Despite the woes and troubles that life has thrown at me I've also had many moments where I have felt exactly that. Moments that I have paused and captured in my mind of pure and true love, of contentment, of just unmeasurable, amazing... happiness.

There are people in the world that will never know or never experience that happiness and there are people who may only experience it once or twice. So I am grateful that not only have I felt it, but I have had many moments like that. And I will treasure them always and know that whatever the future holds I have had such happiness and that that in itself is something to be grateful for.

...Whether I have ten thousand more moments like that or just those ones.

The Time Traveller's Wife

Eric Bana is GORGEOUS.

How I have not noticed him before? I would watch The Time Travellers' Wife over and over and over again just to stare at his gorgeous deep brown eyes. Although if tonight's viewing is anything to go by I would need to get a serious supply of tissues at the ready ...I literally booed my eyes out!

I read The Time Traveller's Wife a few years ago and could not put it down. The story was fascinating, exciting, intriguing and different. I fell in love with it instantly and thoroughly enjoyed every word, sentence, page and chapter. Audrey Niffenegger had gained herself a new fan and when the film landed in the cinema's not long after I was desperate to see it. For some reason I didn't though, I'm not even sure why now. However, nearly three years later I see that it's on TV and of course I just have to watch it ...well record it and watch it at my own convenience of course, as is the modern way.

So tonight, chores done, kids in bed, I sat down with a nice hot cuppa and not nearly enough tissues

...and fell in love with Eric Bana!

But aside from that... it was so interesting to see the book as a film. My opinon of the film is strangely split though. On one hand it missed out huge, huge chunks of my beloved (and I would go so far as to say favourite) book and seemed to rush past others parts perhaps too much as well. On the other hand it was beautiful. Just a beautiful representation of the book. And I think that is the key to this film. I don't think I would have enjoyed the film as much had I not read the book. To be honest I'm not sure I would have even really 'got' the film had it not been for the pre-reading of the book.

Having read the book first and anticipated the film, I've got to say, I loved it ...inspite of it's disappointments.