The inspiration for today’s post stems from a few different occurrences. It is indeed a very true story, and I hope you all are not only a bit romanced yourselves but inspired when you finish reading.
One evening after work, just a few months ago, the romantic comedy What Happens in Vegas was playing on the television. At the end my roommate laughed as she proclaimed, “See, now that just doesn’t happen. Stuff like that just does not happen in real life.” This shocked me, coming from her, because I had always pictured her a huge fan of romantic comedies. Well, did I have a story for her! Now I’ve never been one to be labeled a hopeless romantic. Slowly yet surely I am dropping my cynical shell. But what I do know is that those types of “that doesn’t happen in real life” scenes do happen..in real life..and I have proof.
I’m going to tell you a story about my sister, Jessica, and a boy from downstairs, Justin. In 2005 my sister and 4 of her optometry school friends moved into the top portion of a house, while a group of 4 boys were currently occupying the lower half in Boston. Friendships bloomed as the newly constructed group of house mates began hanging out, playing practical jokes on each other and the such. Great friendships formed as they were all young and in punch drunk love with life. Fast forward to the month of March 2006…….
The 4 boys and 2 of the girls took a little spring break trip to Paris. My sista sista was one of those 2 girls. I don’t think anyone could have foreseen what would spring forth out of that spring break trip. Maybe is was being in the City of Love, the lights of the Eiffel Tower, La Vie en Rose, that old Parisian charm, who knows….
but the Universe, my friends, was allowing it’s plan to unfold as it had so concisely constructed over time.
What started as a great friendship blossomed, as they say, into quite more while vacationing in Paris. What many little girls dream about, read about, watch movies about, happened, to my sister, in Paris, France. I don’t think even Daniel Steele could have written it better than how it all played out.
To make a long story short, on this day, this October 20, 2009, I would like to say congratulations and a very big Happy 2nd Anniversary to my wonderful Sista Sista – the sunshine of my days, Jessica, and one of the best Big Brothers a girl can have, Justin. May you celebrate many, many more!
So you see, dear reader, that those scenes in movies really do happen in real life. Inspiration must come from somewhere for it to enter into our dreams and end up on the silver screens. I tell my sister’s story to anyone I hear laugh and say “that doesn’t happen in real life…” sometimes just to say hey, who are you to say what can and can not happen in real life?! It just goes to show that you never know what the Universe has in store for you and at any time, plans can unfold before your eyes…that were made for those Silver Screens.
