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Why are we like this?
Front-Ranger:
It's nice to see you here, friend!
Your portrait of your bf is lovely! I'm so glad you still have it to cherish. Also I loved your comment, "I wish they'd get on the same elevator with the person they love, and stay there, and not quit."
At the very primitive level, we are all animals at heart with a need for survival, which begets fear. And fear creates a world of many things. But the need for survival also begets the need to come together and hold and comfort each other, to love and encourage, and to ensure the survival of our species. And that creates a world of many things too. I imagine these two worlds flowing and shifting together, just like the two hemispheres of your late husband's ring.
Brokebacklove4ever:
--- Quote from: bbm_stitchbuffyfan on June 17, 2006, 09:06:33 pm ---You know......
I really don't have any insight into this. All I can say is, I still think about Jack and Ennis all the freakin' time. I can now entertain other thoughts but even then, subconsciously I'm thinking of our boys. And you know what, I totally relate about them feeling not like movie characters but close, real-life friends.
Whenever I remember at night, I'll even say "Goodnight, Jack. Goodnight, Ennis." :)
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you know u are about to make me cry bbm_stitchbuffyfan,.. shame on you,.. ;) I caught myself doing this too a few nights ago. Saying goodnight to our boys as I went to sleep.
Brokebacklove4ever:
After thinking about this very topic for a few days, just living my life, but thinking. BBM was a movie about love, pure and simple. Love in its MOST brutal and unfiltered form. No movie has ever shown love in this light, without the glamor,or props, just two human being struggling to love each other in Gods beautiful surroundings. Its a very simple movie full of uncomplicated beauty that resonates with the primal need in all of us to love, and be loved. Thats just the basics of the backdrop, then there is Jack And Ennis. Two lovable men that found a common bond that we can all relate to at one point and time in our lives. I think because both men are so lovable, and their love story so tragic, we continue to WANT FOR THEM TO BE TOGETHER and live happily ever after. While watching this movie, we literally watch the boys fall in love,and its a wonderful thing to witness. I could go on and on, but I just put the DVD in, and its time to watch the boys,.....fall in love all over again. I have to admit,sometimes I put the DVD in,and hear that first cord of that guitar, and tears come to my eyes. I don't know why,.....its very weird, but this movie simply gut-punches me. i guess that is something that I will never be able to explain.
Be good to yourself
Shakesthecoffecan:
Six years now, and not a day goes by that thoughts of Brokeback Mountain do not cross my mind.
Last night it occurred to me that Proulx's short story is probably, in my 40+ years of reading, the most complete treatment of the inarticulate I have ever read.
Meryl:
--- Quote from: Shakesthecoffecan on December 26, 2011, 11:51:08 am ---Six years now, and not a day goes by that thoughts of Brokeback Mountain do not cross my mind.
Last night it occurred to me that Proulx's short story is probably, in my 40+ years of reading, the most complete treatment of the inarticulate I have ever read.
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So true, Tru. It's like music on the page.
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