Strangers, Again (Media Log #2)

WongFu Production's short film "Strangers Again"

Lao Tzu once said, "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Truly, love is one of the most basic things that our life revolves on. Without love, we wouldn't be alive. Without love, our very existence would prove to me meaningless and our significant lives would have significant to no value at all. Love, after all, is something that we all value. @AlisteContreras (2013, May 15) We fall in love with the strangers in our lives. That being said, I can agree to that. Isn't it weird that we fall in love with the people who were once strangers to us? 

Relationships are formed when love is present. As Oscar Wilde once said, if you don't put love in your heart, it's like a flower garden with dead flowers. There is a special bond between two lovers. This is the relationship that they cherish and strengthen, the type of relationship that really deserves to be taken care of. When two people become lovers, they first start as strangers. From there on, they become acquaintances, then friends and finally lovers. However, sometimes the wrong cycle is formed. From there, the two people become strangers again. 

This short film shows that cycle. People that started off as strangers, friends, then finally lovers. But apparently, they broke up and became strangers again. It wasn't a pretty sight to see. That coming from me, I've had my share of experience regarding that topic. It's never easy to see someone that was once close to you become a stranger again. As Martin Luther King Jr, once said, hate is too great a burden to bear. That's why rather than becoming enemies, they'd rather become strangers. It is still wrong, however, that such great relationships end up like that. I mean, there's a reason why love was there. For me, I value love greatly. I mean, not because love is love, but rather because I know and believe that I cannot live without love. I believed and still continue to believe that without love, nothing that we see now will ever be real. Everything in this world would be phantasmal had it not been for the existence of love. 

If ever I get into a situation like the one presented in this short film, I know I'd be sad. I'm not used to losing friends, especially if that friend was my lover. I cannot bear the fact of losing people in my life, that they just become strangers again. That's one of the things I never want to feel. Because as a wise man once said, no man is an island.