Just keep walking (Reflection on A Long Walk to Forever)

What if your long lost love came knocking to your door and tells you "I love you" days before you get married?

I'm sure we all fell in love once in our lives to some one. Most of the time we keep our emotions to ourselves, suppress it and wait for it to go away. But also in most times these feelings don't just simple fly out of the window and out of our minds. They haunt us, keep our minds busy and thoughts filled of that special someone.

Once you love someone its not that easy to let of their memory. Even if years pass by, that loved person will remain a special someone inside of you. I really don't know what "Catherine" (the woman in the story) was actually feeling for Newt but what I do know is that Newt loved her as soon as he came crashing to her door. But why does the story have to even start this way?

In my life there were times I would have to say "I'd like to regret this and that...". In love, there were time when I did felt that way. Like Catherine, I was afraid to voice out how I really felt for some one because of the crashing "what if's" in my mind. WHAT IF HE DOESN'T LIKE ME. Probably Catherine felt the same way that's why she kept it all inside, waiting for it to disperse.

On the other hand, Newt wasn't able to keep his feelings all to himself. Knowing that Catherine was about to get married in a week, he took a chance on letting Catherine know on how she really felt.

"One foot in front of the other--through leaves, over bridges--"

“Let’s take chances”. Basically, when Newt went back home to talk to Catherine and ask her if she could take a walk with him, he was taking chance if Catherine would do so. Even when he told her that he loved her, he was taking chance that Catherine would tell him that she loves him too. It’s about taking chances of the possibilities in life through fallen times (as represented by trees) and “what could be at the other side” (as represented by the bridges).

It's never too late on saying how you really feel for the person you really love. It's about taking that "one chance" in life and knowing that no matter what comes after it is forever. If it doesn't end up the way you want things to be at least you did your best and if does, then good for you.