Love is all around

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around.

- Love Actually

Last night, although I was not at London Heathrow airport, I was at the Newark airport, where Krista, Nicole, and I finally saw each other for the first time since September. The three of us have been best friends for as long as I can remember (kindergarten to be exact so that would be about 13 or 14 years). So I don’t remember if we’ve said yet where we all go to school but this is the first time in all these years that we have all been at different schools and in different states. Krista came home on Tuesday, the same day I came home, but Nicole came back last night. She was coming back by plane and Krista and I decided to surprise her at the airport. We drove there with her mom and sister, who waited right outside the gate, whereas Krista and I waited off to the side so that Nicole wouldn’t see us. When she finally came through the gate, she went to hug her mom as Krista and I snuck up behind her. As we shouted “NICOLE!!!” she screamed then abruptly covered her mouth for screaming like that in an airport, then she hugged us both. The whole car ride home we couldn’t stop talking about everything under the sun since we haven’t seen each other in so long. The whole time this was happening, I kept thinking back to that quote and the movie Love Actually. The movie (for those of you that don’t know it) is about how love is everywhere and it can’t be stopped by anything. Krista, Nicole and I love each other, which was evident to anyone at that arrival gate at the airport last night.

sorry not the best vid but the song is good =)