Always the hours

“Dear Leonard...
to look life in the face,
always... to look life in the face...
and to know it... for what it is...
at last to know it...
to love it... for what it is...
and then...
to put it away.

Leonard...

always the years between us
always the years...
always the love...
always the hours...”

This is the final scene from the movie The Hours. I’ve always deeply loved this movie. Three women. Virginia Woolf, who decides to put an end to her life, a modern Mrs Dalloway who tries to stop a dear friend’s way to a certain death, and a mother, who chooses to escape from his marriage and son, to Live. Three women, three stories, and a subtle line between life and death, but, at the end, the extreme importance to make a choice in life, about what we feel it’s important for us, and for us only.

Maria Cristina Leboffe
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