My Report: I found this movie inspiring. It remind me of things I really love. Ironically the story of the main character was very much like mine, except I wasn’t about to get married. Most of the movie took place in Panama and it was realistic for the most part. Good movie.

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About it: Fresh out of high school — and freshly scorned by his high school sweetheart, whom he planned to marry — Conner Layne (Christopher Masterson) embarks on his yearlong honeymoon alone and learns plenty about himself in the process. While trekking through Central and South America, he befriends a young couple (Johnny Messner and Brooke Burns) who help him move forward, both physically and emotionally.

Why is it the we shy away from new life experiences, but love them when they do happen? What is it that makes us so afraid to live every day as if there was no tomorrow? Is it just because we do think there will be a tomorrow? It’s almost a guarantee since we are able to wake up every morning and do the things we usually do. Go to bed and do the same thousands of times over until one day the unexpectedly happens. Death makes its introduction in the form of a fatal accident, or as it is now for many of us: health deteriorates and life starts to drift away. See now its just too late to really be awake.

I’m going to look into extending my travels a little further before I start classes in Mexico. Maybe make it to Guatemala or even Belize.

How have you been? I hope you are living your life the way you want to live it and that it makes you happy. You should know that I never stopped caring for you. You always inspire my curiosity and my heart still beats faster when I think of you. I wished a million times that we could be together, but I am not going to feel sorry for myself any longer. I am not going to beg you to be my side. I respect your decision. I am not giving up on you, I am simply understanding that you were never mine.

The world is filled with beautiful women just like you, but finding one who’s just as beautiful in the inside and willing to share her time with me will not be easy. I am leaving my dear… but I will be back. If you find the man of your life while I’m gone then I only wish two things: 1) that he makes you happy; and 2) that I am one day able to overcome the pain the news will bring to my heart.

I’m not saying you do, but if you do, please don’t worry about me. Live your life the way you want to live it. I know of no guarantees in this world except that life has a beginning and an end. Only time separates one from the other, and this time is taken from us the same way it is given: in a heartbeat.

I had made the decision to share the time left before my end with you, but the sentiment was not mutual and now my heartbeat only dances to the blues until the day I meet someone like you.

I leave you alone. I will not address this letter to you because of my pride and the respect I have for you, but if you read this letter and it makes you feel something, be smart and reconsider your decision. When will I be ready to afford the kind of life I want to give? I don’t know, but it would be good to make my hearbeat dance to the rhythm of the tango.

Above all, always follow the wisper in your heart.