Had occasion to think of that movie quote after an exchange of e-mails with Babs. The reasons why we broke up are not important, except to say that lack of love for one another was not one of them.
A lot of our talking over the past couple of months has been at each other, and not to each other. She struggles to explain the changes in her outlook since discovering God, and I struggle to explain why it doesn’t really matter to me that she’s a very different person now, emotionally and spiritually. Lots of misunderstandings there, on both sides.
We may never get back together. We may, but not anytime soon. No one can say right now.
But both of us agreed that we don’t want to lose what we first found in each other – a best friend, a confidante, a kindred spirit. And so, we begin anew the task of learning who the other is, with our eyes wide open this time.
It occurs to me that a good way to start is by doing what I do best – plagiarize somebody else’s best stuff if you can’t come up with anything better on your own:
Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love…true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.
Wise man, that Hub McCann.
