This is more than a story for the broken hearted. “P.S. I Love You”  Is the live life and love once story about the devotion between two people before and after death. After diagnosed with a fatal illness, Hillary Swanks character, Holly, had to deal with losing her best friend and soul mate… her husband. Knowing her better than the rest of their worlds, Garry (broodingly adorable, Irish hunk, Gerard Butler) arranged for letters to be sent to his widowing wife during the first year of his passing. Not only a way to remember the memories and obstacles they faced, but the way their love could stand the end of time, each letter led Holly to moving on with her life and reassuring her that he would be standing right besides her through coming birthdays, karaoke, and all his lovable dares, until the very end.

Not the typical romantic-comedy, “P.S. I Love You” is a refreshingly new approach on how love can be seen. Writer, Cecelia Ahern, wrote the very story for herself.

 

“Fear drives us to do many things in our lives. For me, the fear of losing a loved one, and all those terrifying thoughts of what its like to be left behind and feel alone, drove me to conceive and write this story,” As stated by the writer herself in the previously published novel, where it all began.

 

As people, we focus on spending time searching for love, disregarding the treacherous idea of maybe losing it one day in the worse way. Worse than another man or woman. Worse than a faded flame and countless arguments. Worse than giving up. This loss is uncontrollable by man, and when we lose that one person, that world we lived to build, we’ve searched to find and could only read about on paper, suddenly seems like a dream that’s fogged up the morning after.

 

People have shared their stories about losing their own loved ones and the strength it took to move on. Not only attempting to move past their tragic loss, but continue feeling the presence and holding the memories that they once lived to share.

 

In the soulful story, Holly stated, after countless nights sleeping alone that she was scared to someday not feel Garry’s presence. To feel as if he wasn’t there would be as if he never existed and was truly gone. But maybe it’s just the fact that they have moved on as well as you have. These people we have loved and tragically lost stuck around protecting us from being afraid, mourning the fact that we truly felt them for the last time. They are the ones who give us strength and fall in love all over again with the person we’ve become just for having them apart of our world. This is the very purpose of their love story.

 

Aside from the enchanting tale about a girl, one simple soundtrack knows how to deliver the messages sent. With bands like The Stills, The Pogues, the enchanting James Blunt, Needtobreath, and Irish band Flogging Molly. WIth many more artist contributing to the musical aspect of the film, these tunes tug at your heart strings influencing you to grasp your love for music and LimeWIre these artist to continuously sencing the way you did for that hour and a half of movie magic. Not just a song running through your head in the end, P.S. I love You's music simply inspires you to feel.

 

We turn to films like “The Notebook”, “Princess Diaries”, and “Sleepless in Seattle” to make ourselves feel warm hearted and hopeful that love conquers all and destiny  will lead us to a happy ending. I turn to “P.S. I Love You” to fall in love with my own story, and shine an entirely new appreciation to what’s already there. Not only an hour and a half of cinematic magic, has this inspired viewers and readers across the world, including me, to add at the end of every day, our very own, “P.S. I love You”?