I don't really like taking the MTR especially during rush hours. Last Friday I had to take it from Wanchai to TST as the traffic condition was bad on the road. So there I went, at 6:30 in the afternoon, walking through the crowd and trying to get on the next train. Unfortunately when I got to the platform, the train door started to close right in front of my eyes.
This experience reminds me of the movie "Sliding Doors". Helen, played by one of my favourite actress, Gwyneth Paltrow. The movie starts with a scene where Helen loses her job as an advertising executive, she decides to return home in the middle of the day. So she heads to the tube station and that's when the story begins.
In scenario 1, Helen just slips through the sliding doors before the train pulls out of the station. On board, she meets the cheerful, talkative James (John Hannah), a Monty Python fan who is taken with her beauty. Minutes later, in her flat, she walks in on her lover in bed with another woman. In scenario 2, she misses the train and, shortly thereafter, is the victim of an attempted mugging. She doesn't meet James and fails to make it home in time to discover Gerry's infidelity. Collocate against one another, while sharing many places, cues, and characters, the two stories proceed in parallel from there.
Life does compose of moments like this I believe. It's all about timing. If an incident happens to us with a different timing, the ending will be totally different and there's no gurantee if it will be better or worse. Somehow we just have to go with the flow, trust in God's planning and not to regret for what has already been done.
He has made every thing beautiful in his time: also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. ~Ecclesiastes 3:11~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl5s8AJZvS0
