~The Summer Vs. Tom Theory~ Brought to you by Hollywood and my brain!

Recently I watched 500 Days of Summer. If you have yet to see the movie, fair warning- this blog will spoil the ending so you may NOT want to read. The artistry of it all was incredible, & everything from their clothes to the set was brilliant. It had almost a Stranger Than Fiction'esk type of feel to it, but was exceedingly more wonderful. So, ya, if you don't want a spoiler do not proceed to read (hehehe that rhymed) :)

Anywhooooo, I had a love hate relationship with this movie. I adored the plot and ending because I tend to be a realistic, cynic who pathetically is a romantic at heart. SO-in this case, the movie was perfect for me (and my ridiculous lack of attention span) because:

I hate when the protagonist always gets what he wants... realistic movies are an oxymoron conundrum to me. If he falls for the girl, he's obviously not ALWAYS going to win her in the end. (Yes, even you Matthew Maconahay, Will Smith, or in this case Joseph Levitt).

Yes, i am the jerk that was stoked when our hero failed to get the girl.

Here we have Tom, a believer in love and destiny. To Tom these concepts are intertwined and Summer is his not to tie them together. Summer, however, sees love as mythology and ridiculousness. She firmly believes that no one really finds that "perfect someone" yet precedes to date...or "not date" Tom. While the boy falls more and more in love, and thinks the girl is falling too, things fall apart like sand through Toms fingers. Summer ends up getting engaged to a different man...and Tom can not level with himself as to WHY and HOW this could even happen. Closer towards the end Summer finds Tom sitting at a bench they once sat at together, now married, and explains how he was right, people can fall in love with that one amazing person...she was just not his. Tom, at the very finale of the movie, gets out of the greeting card business to work as an architect which he always wanted to do. He is sitting, waiting on an interview and meets a girl, who he suddenly realizes is "different". It ends with his someone being named Autumn and them going out for coffee. His season of Summer was over ;) ...

WHEW, ok... obviously i am not here to write a movie review, I am here to level a few points I truly loved.

Everyone at some point can relate to either character. At a time in most lives, people seemingly are like Tom, and want to commit everything to a Summer, only to receive rejection. The "Tom's" also seemingly find themselves lonely and broken by realizing this one person they chose to love decides to not love in return.

Then there is Summer. As much as we tend to slightly hate her character in the movie, it almost seems that everyone is someones Summer at some point in life as well. Everybody is always loved by that one person you just know deep down is not the "1" for you. This leads to you having to reject a Tom or two...for both of your goods. Although, I will point out that hopefully we do things differently than her. If ever in the place of being Summer, we need to be careful to not take advantage of the Toms who love us dearly.

Its that weird concept that everyones Tom...is someone else's Summer.....and vise versa.

BUT, after the movie i was struck even deeper with the concept that we are sometimes Summer to God. We can invite him into our life. We can choose to love Him, yet somehow don't realize His DEEP, WONDERFUL, & AMAZING love for us. He is a Tom. He never gives up or stops fighting for us. We can stab Him in the heart with careless things we say or do. We can slap him in the face...and yet....Tom (our God) pursues.

The even crazier concept is even if we take the ring of someone, something, some place, ANYTHING else....our Tom still wait for us. We can marry our problems, but it doesn't matter- he sees us as THE ONE. THE ONLY. He is willing to fully surrender His life for us. To die for us. No matter what we choose.

so the question is...... Do we choose Tom? or do we choose the one thing/thought/future/ hope we thought was better, when to them/it/place/job (insert whatever) we are just a Tom.

From being a Tom once in my life, I realized I never want to be a Summer to someone else...

I truly can not imagine making someone feel as broken as the Summer in mine.

so the question is...how much AM I a Summer to Jesus?

How many times throughout my day do I hurt Him when He loves me so? It's not even that He is "Just a Tom" because with Jesus NO ONE is better or will be better. He IS and WAS our lover...

Just some thoughts to Muse and Chew During the advance of my epic, hated, least-favorite holiday......*cough Feb 14th*. The cool concept is that my holiday/life/goals/anything can keep being redeemed bc I am choosing to Love the Tom who was really my #1 all along. His name is Jesus, and oh how He loves me.

~Faith and Prayers~