I just watched the The Leap Years today, a romantic love movie adapted from Dr. Catherine Lim's novella of two people who made a promise to meet every February 29th, 8pm at the cafe they first met. After 4 leap years and some seemingly insurmountable differences, they finally ended up together. Here are some inspiring quotes taken from the movie:

"A person often meets his destiny on the way he took to avoid it" - Jean de le Fontaine

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves" - William Shakespeare

"In three words, I can sum up everything I've learnt about life: it goes on" - Robert Frost

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous" - Albert Einstein

"If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life" - Oscar Wilde

As skeptical as people might perceive me to be, I question the practicality or 'real factor' of the story. 16 years - which girl in her right mind would wait so long for a guy she hardly knew? By her wedding day, which is the day of the 4th meeting they were supposed to have, she would have been 40. Wasting all her youth on an 'almost stranger'? Hardly rational at all for a modern successful woman.

Strangely enough, I do get a glimpse of myself in the protagonist's life. Career-wise, I'm moving along. Other than that, I'm seemingly always on the move but not going anywhere. I see her stubbornness in not settling for less in me. All her friends have moved on, but she need not follow suit because of peer influences. The male lead in the show calls her brave - not needing to be with someone just because of the fear of being alone.

I don't know where I'm heading down this path actually. As Robert Frost's poem goes: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both...

Maybe I'm just used to taking the longer path in life, but I'll get to where I want to be, eventually...