The
novel I have read is A Walk to Remember, written by Nicholas Spark. Reading
the poignant story came to life is quite a memorable thing, added with such a
compelling pair of leads. The story is full of lessons, really. Here are some...
1. You never can judge a book by its cover. You never can judge a person by his/her appearance, or his/her surroundings and circle of friends. There is such a thing called benefit of the doubt. However bad a person is, and however wrong his choice of friends is, his heart might be good. Peer pressure pressed Landon to be friends with the naughty group, but his good heart still compelled him to save and apologize to that boy, whom was so eager to be in that group.
2. Jealousy
is a bitter thing. Especially when you’re the bad one jealous of
someone who is good, and because of it you do something bad to that good
person. No good thing can come your way. Belinda’s aim from distributing the corrupted picture of Jamie was to get Landon
back. Well, she got that scornful look from him, and that’s it. He never looked
back again.
3. Even
that movie was almost ten years ago, there was already the technology of
corrupting or in nicer word, editing a picture. And that was Kodak
pictures, not even digital ones yet. As the years gone by, we were introduced
with digital cameras and digital everything.
Editing pictures are only a click away.
Lesson to ponder here, girls, is that even then, more than five years ago, people
can do whatever to your pictures. What about now? Yup. People can do
more. Technology advances, and so does people
wicked intention. Be careful what you post on the net, whatever pictures,
whatever videos. You don’t want your face to be plastered on that corrupted
flyers (or in these years, everywhere on the net) like Jamie’s did.
4. There
is such a thing called courtesy, and courting. Not many men use those
these days. There is a proper manner in asking a girl out, even for Christians,
as shown in the movie when Landon went to see the Reverend to ask Jamie out.
Well, how many guys do that these days? Asking the parent for permission to
date the daughter? We, Muslims are not supposed to date. But, even so, we do
have the proper manner in asking a girl for her hand in marriage. By asking her
wali, her parents or her guardian. How many Muslimin do that these days? Forget
Facebook, forget sms, forget phone calls, those are not, and I repeat are not
the proper channels for you to propose, however romantic you do it. Doing
it the proper way shows your love and respect for the girl. The aim is for
a lifetime, ladies and gentlemen, and not for just a few passionate moments.
It’s no wonder when we hear people got divorced through sms and phone calls so
easy these days, they might propose through those methods too, before!
5.
Talking about parents, this movie teaches something about parenting too. About
the scar a parent left to his kid when he walked away. It lasted for years.
It’s not an apparent scar you see on your skin, but it’s the scar which hurts
the most. Scar on your heart. But then, at the end of the day, your
parents are still your parents. No matter how hard, or how hurtful it
got, or how grown-up you’ve become, once in a while you do need that loving hug
from your parents, those strong shoulders to cry on. I didn’t shed a tear
throughout the movie except for the scene when Landon hugged his father tight
and cried his heart out after finding out that the old man was willing to pay
for Jamie’s home care. That was for me, the saddest, most poignant moment in
the movie.
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