Different Sparks’: One Love

The Notebook. Message in the Bottle. A Walk to Remember. The Guardian. At First Sight. The Wedding. Dear John. The Choice. The Lucky One. Safe Haven. The Best of Me. The Longest Ride.

All these books are written by Nicholas Sparks, a well-known romance novelist. Each book has its own characters, has its own love story. And amazingly, I love all of those. Nicholas Sparks never failed to amuse me, to make my heart falter, to make me sigh, to giggle, to make me cry and to make me fall in love.

I really love to read, damn much!! I can just sit all day, holding a book and it drifting me to another world. Every time I read, I feel like in a different dimension where everything is just so perfect, where true love exists, where forever is not impossible.

After reading these books by Sparks, there’s always hope in me that my happily ever after is just out there. Yeah, I’m becoming hopeless romantic again and again. I’m still praying that I can meet someone just like in those books, someone who is loving, someone who is gentle, someone who understands, someone who protects, someone who provides and the list goes on. However, at the back of my mind, I can’t help but ask, does that guy really exist? Someone like Landon Carter who loves Jamie Sullivan eternally, someone like John Tyree who loves Savannah selfishly, someone like Travis Parker who never gave up on Gabby even on the verge of dying, someone like Noah Calhoun who did everything to make Allie fall in love again, someone like Dawson who gave the best of him to Amanda.

Sparks always makes me believe in great love. Hmmm… love, such a powerful feeling, it can build you up and at the same time it can also break you. It can turn your world upside down. It can make you crazy, ecstatic and sometimes lonely.

Love is powerful that it can tear some things and yet it can heal some wounds as well.

Love can make you a different person.

In the real world, wherein the hashtag “walang forever” is so trending, I still believe that God will give someone who is right for me under the right circumstances. I still do believe in happy endings. I still do believe that there is forever. Like what I’m always saying after I read Sparks’ novels, the hopeless romantic vibe in me will never die. I’m forever will be.