Category: Movie Movers
"Tous pour un, un pour tous" (all for one, one for all) ~from the Three Musketeers.
When we were young and unafraid; in our hearts
sprung eternal longings. We were ambitious as a bald eagle that soared the
clouds above Mt. Apo. We chased for the desires of our hearts. We swung our
swords up high and sought bounties in the high seas. Sometimes we fell but we
were not cast down. In this battleground of life, we were warriors. We wanted
to toil in the battlefield. We loved to batter the enemies’ airships with
treacherous muskets. We all wanted to be musketeers!
But as the years passed by, and the ipil-ipil
tree grew taller while more candles adorned our cakes; we started to get
settled (contrary to Steve Jobs’ advice from that famous commencement speech:
“Stay hungry, stay foolish... Don’t settle”).
But we settled anyway, on a cool dark theatre,
perched in a comfortable, cozy, black sofa chair in front of the big screen.
That new exquisite couch is one of the cool additions to an otherwise ordinary
Cinema. We lie comfortably on our backs, as we ate a box of pizza, washed down
with calamansi juice. Never had I been amazed with the Cinema chairs until I
experienced this one! I imagined I would've had slept comfortably but the
whooshing of swords and booms of the muskets kept me alert.
So here we are watching a prairie scene where a
country boy bids farewell to his parents. He is going to Paris to realize his
dream of being a Musketeer. When his father is about to give his parting words;
The young D’Artagnan cut him off, promising that he is not going to get into trouble.
But his father told him that he should run into trouble sometimes. Behold, as
it was quoted countless of times; to grow old and wise, we must be young and
stupid.
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