it’s just a movie
from emma forrest’s stunning memoir your voice in my head, an excerpt where she asks a psychiatrist if the man who dumped her and broke her heart really meant it:
“Do you believe he meant it all the times he said we were going to be a family?
“I believe he believed everything he said to you.”
Then she shakes her head and says a very strange thing.
“It’s just a movie.”
“What?”
“It’s not real. You don’t have to feel as hurt as you do. It was only a movie.”
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Cor 13:12-13, ESV)
