How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!/ The world forgetting, by the world forgot./ Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!/ Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

and with that quote i declare Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind my favourite movie until the next show i watch. 'you have been erased from someone's memory'. what a concept. both ways. having your memory erased, and having someone's memory of you erased, both sides of the same coin. after all, what are we but concepts and thoughts and a projection of our personality and so if there's nothing to project to then whats left of us? this brings to mind an memory from a few years back.

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Roger is a guy from ACS barker primary who was a bit nuts. He idolized hitler and during recess would send me on missions to assasinate the principal or who naught and no this was no child-game for him and he took the whole business very seriously. sometime in primary 5 i think he just disappeared. just stopped coming to school. no one knew where he went and no one was old enough to care and we went on with our carefree primary school life eating canteen food and playing police and thief and all the assorted trappings.
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few years back, i was browsing around MPH bookstore when no and behold i saw him!
"Roger! hey! remember me? lennard!"
"Lennard? what is this? who is this? no!! no!!" and he clutched at his head and scrunced his face and waved his hand and had a dreamy look in his eye. he had a caretaker with him and she promptly shoo-ed me away and told me never to talk or bother him again and it was an altogether very disorienting experience but no i didn't feel sorry for him but i am sorry that he will never remember me, insignificant as it may be.

i fondly remember him.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. and when Mary (Kirsten Dunst) said that i thought of firstly him, and then myself.

and then the movie also brings to mind the concept of 'the one'. no i'm not talking about the jet li corn-ball sci-fi thrash flick, but about a notion old as time about soulmates, about two people made just for each other, fitting each other snugly like adjacent puzzle pieces. Homer and Marge come close. do i believe that we've a special someone out there? honestly, no i don't, but i think there definately are people who are better suited for each other. joan's post mentioned that monogomy is dead and how different people complete different aspects of our being and i say all those in favour, say aye.

aye.

and. and i am glad that jim carrey is started to flex his thespian muscles. first Man on The Moon, which was under-appreciated, then The Truman Show, which was excellent, and The Majestic, which was severely under-rated. now this, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind. Oh joy, oh joyful elation, i'll jump in the air and click my heels for him. if you could buy hollywoodstar stocks, i say buybuybuybuy jim carrey. Bigger things to come and i for one eagerly anticipate with baited breath.