If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?
If I could be any character, I would choose Princess Buttercup from The Princess Bride, both a book (Goldman, W., 1973) and a movie (Reiner, R., 1987).
Princess Buttercup is as beautiful as she is naive. Westly, a young farm hand, loves Buttercup with his whole heart despite the fact that she continuously treats him as if he is unimportant. He loves her no matter what she does or how dumb she acts. He even dies for her. But unlike real life, “He is only mostly dead” (Reiner) and rises again.
Westly pursues Buttercup relentlessly with unending love to save her life, until, in the end, all she has to do is take one giant leap of faith to be free from evil forever.
She is rescued from evil. She is rescued from herself. She learns to accept true love that has been right beside her all along.
Recognizing unending love is life-changing. That kind of love is bigger than the human heart. To be relentlessly pursued, then turn around one day and see the heart of the One who loves me? Seeing, really seeing still gives me a sense of overwhelming awe. Seeing still makes me cry tears of joy and barely catch my breath.
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