"So, you've come to find your Lorenzo."

Letters to Juliet is a story about the beauty of searching for something nobody believes in anymore and finding it just as that little bit of hope begins to crumble away. Whether it be to find love, home, a newfound family and friends, it never fails to soften the heart of even those who do not know what they are searching for. Sophie, the main character of the movie is on a pre-honeymoon vacation in Verona, Italy with her fiancé and creates a special bonding with women who are known as Juliet’s Secretaries. Juliet’s Secretaries reply to letters written by people from all over the world who visit the Casa de Gullietta. While helping the secretaries, Sophie finds a letter hidden behind one of the bricks of Juliet’s House, and realizes it was a letter written fifty years ago! Sophie quickly jumps to replying a letter to the author, Claire, writing a compelling letter about the “what ifs” of life. A couple days later Claire, having her grandson in tow, so moved by Sophie’s reply visited Casa de Gullietta in search of her long-ago lover, Lorenzo.

On my flight from Honolulu to LA, I watched one of my all time favorite movies, Letters to Juliet. Letters to Juliet always had such a magical vibe to me, whenever I watch it the wanderer within me wants to jump ahead and book the next flight to Italy or somewhere inspiration fizzles in the air. As the theme of the movie revolves around finding romance, I realized that I, too, was finding for my Lorenzo but in a rather different concept. As one of the flight attendants woke me up to offer me a cup of soda, Sophie tells the hopeful Claire: “So, you’ve come to find your Lorenzo.” I could not help but think about the Lorenzos of everybody’s life, with all of these people sitting around me in a crammed airplane. Where are they off to? What are they about to venture in? Are they about to meet their Lorenzo? Achieve their Lorenzo? I know I do not know the Lorenzo in my life at the moment; but I do know that I am searching for it somewhere and I have yet to find it.

How wonderful would it be to find such a timeless gem? Someone, something, somewhere that would withstand the tests of time? Like Sophie, I think the scariest questions in life are the unanswered “what ifs?” Which is why I would rather take a chance and see the answers for myself because I do not think I would ever bear thinking about missing something and subjecting myself to the dreaded question. I hope, like Sophie, I would have the courage to believe in following my dreams and like Claire, to believe in a timeless dream despite the frightening and happy swerves of life.

Sitting on the flight to LAX, on my way to countries so foreign to me, I realized that I’ve also come to look for my Lorenzo.

(If you have found or are still searching for your Lorenzo, share your story on the comment box below!

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