"Everyone's a lost romantic"

After watching Eternal Sunshine for a second time I realised how much of a hopeless, helpless romantic I am. While I am traditionally cynical of chick flicks I still find something within myself that is moved by this sort of thing. I laugh for sheer joy at the conclusion the triumph and the hope. Possibly Eternal Sunshine is not so much a love story as a story that uses love to emphasise the point it wishes to make. Humanity and life will triumph over any man made contrivances. And that we should not run and hide from our problems no matter how easy it might seem but rather we should confront them. This is the character building nature of evil. For it is in suffering that we become strong. While life would be easier if everything was easy and painless we would not grow. Instead we would become whiny spoiled brats.

The title is a quote from the New Switchfoot song "Easier than love"