The V formation

Today as I walked home, I saw the migratory birds in V formation flying away from Dubai.  This marks that winter is over.  Here comes the sun.  Goodbye migratory birds...

I cried watching Beauty and the Beast 2017 movie

Beauty and the beast, the animation, has always been my favorite Disney movie before Frozen came.  Well, at least it is still my favorite romantic animation.  The movie was just like the animated movie in 1991 except I noticed that the song "Kiss the girl" was not included and there was an additional time travel where Belle saw how her mother died or why they had to leave her mother behind in Paris when she was a child. Same story plot but it all came to life.

The movie opened with once upon a time, there was a young prince.  Then there was the village song with Belle and everybody saying that she is peculiar.  Who could ever forget Gaston, the captain who wants to marry Belle.  The same arrogant captain who had Maurice, (Belle's father) be eaten by wolves in the forest then had him sent to the asylum.  The same guy who despite him wanting to marry Belle, he also locked up Belle with her father.  Worse, he shot the beast twice to kill him.

What made me cry watching the movie?

1.  The father's love.  Maurice has sacrificed his love for his wife leaving her in Paris during a plague so that Bell could survive.

2.  A mother's love.  Belle's mother had to be left behind in Paris for her to be saved during a plague.

3.  A daughter's love.  Belle came to the beast and became prison in place of her father.

The lesson here is LOVE.  It has always been love that can change a beast to a handsome prince.  Remember the frog prince, the sleeping beauty and all other animation about LOVE.  Love is still the most powerful feeling in the world that even the wildest beast can change into a loving prince.  But the most wonderful love of all is...the family's love - father, mother and child!