I only had Star Wars. So, I wrote a list of five things I learned about love from Star Wars and since most of what I said was drowned out by the uproarious laughter in the hall I thought I should write it down for everyone to read.
- It’s okay if sometimes you feel like Chewbacca and the only person that understands you is Han, because one person is enough.
- It is in confidence and not romance that love is most apparent. Because, in one of the best scenes of all time, Han just says I know after Leia tells him that she loves him, but that was enough to risk her life breaking him out of a carbonite prison hanging on Jabba’s wall.
- Learn from your mistakes. The Death Star in Episode VI gets destroyed in basically the same way as in Episode IV. Don’t build your spaceship with one fatal flaw that can destroy the entire thing. Build it so that it can take a beating from every angle and come out dented but running. Like the Millennium Falcon. Build your relationship like the Millennium Falcon.
- Sometimes you have to sacrifice the tauntaun to save a man. Let go of the little things to keep the big things alive.
- You don’t have to be the hero to get the girl. You just have to show up.
This is for Gabe and Amanda, two people that I love entirely.