Last week, while watching the movie "Me Before You," I walked in knowing that it would break my heart. I had read the book years before and knew that I would be completely devastated and crying my eyes out by the time the movie finished. Little did I know how brilliant and absolutely eye-opening the movie would be, even though I could barely get off my chair due to the crying that turned into laughter. My emotions went haywire.
The truth is that you can't save everyone. You do your best to love them and support them, but, in the end, their choices are their own. People make their own choices and you can choose to either stand beside them or not at all. Your choice is just as valid as theirs. Sitting in this dark theater, my heart broke for Louisa and the pain that she would endure. However, on some level, I understood Will's decision and I respected it. It's one of those topics that make you think and make you realize that you don't really know what you would do in his place. How would you feel? How would you live?
Louisa did everything that she could to give Will the desire to live and, to a certain extent, he did. With her, he was a different man who was filled with happiness. However, his choice to leave this world left me and the entire theater sobbing loudly because we always want the happy ending. Sometimes, there are no happy endings. We try our best to live life to the fullest, but then an earth-shattering event occurs and we simply cannot live the way that we used to. Some of us have the strength and desire to move forward, but some just live painfully and choose not to live this way.
For the most part, my focus was on Louisa and how much she loved Will. She did everything from taking him horse racing to going on beach trips. It wasn't enough for him. She saw the person and not the chair, but but he did not see the person. He just felt the chair. This was not the life that he wanted to live and he chose to leave it. That is the hardest lesson to learn and the hardest thing that I've ever had to accept. You can't save everyone.
People will be selfish. People will do what is best for themselves, despite loving you. Will did what he felt was best for him and his stubbornness left his mind closed to any other decision. He made Louisa promise to live her life boldly and to the fullest extent. In the end, that is all that any of us can do.