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!

After all this time....

It has been a while since my last blog entry.  I have been busy with the holidays and church service during Christmas here in Dubai.

One highlight of my Dubai Christmas is my first time to attend the nine-day Christmas novena mass alone, yes alone but not lonely.  It has been two years that i have no relationship and for the last four years of my stay here, I have always attended these masses with my ex.  Last year, 2012, I was alone.  Funny, how I felt free and peaceful even sitting alone during the mass and observing different families and couples hugging and holding each other.  There were moments that I shed a  tear or two not because I was sad.  Those were liberating tears.  Tears of memories.  Tears of recollection.

During this novena mass, one thing that I remembered is about repentance.  Fr. Tom, our parish priest, said Repentance is changing your mind and changing your ways. 

Fr. Tom also challenged us to a once a month "be nice day"  wherein we get to choose one day of each month (preferably our birth day) to be nice and not to say any negative things against people for the whole day.  So, there will be 12 months of "no okray day" for me.  February 2 is my second "no okray day or being nice to others day.  I hope i can sustain it until the next Christmas novena mass in 2013.

I have also been busy with my online shop - Ultimate beauty secrets.  This has helped me a lot with additional income to help me raise up my son alone and sustain the dialysis of my mother back home in the Philippines.  Tell you more about my family next time and my online shop. 

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After the holidays, this new year brings new hope, new life and new challenges.  Stay with me as I continue to journey life as a single mom.