The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again..."

Benjamin Button, in letter to his daughter

Well, the picture I have put up above, is a freeze of one of the profound scenes from the movie, that always sends me into such an indescribable state of awe inspired shock whenever I see it: so terrible yet so beautiful at the same time (no, you won't be able to judge that just by looking at the picture, if you haven't seen the film)...

And, about that piece from a letter mentioned above, even though you may not find in it something you have totally unheard off earlier (the last sentence has its similarities with Kipling's 'If'), I absolutely love it for the way it momentarily liberates me from every mundane set-of-rules laid down before me by the world on how to live and judge my life... And, the manner in which it is portrayed: a person who has truly lived a unique life, summing up his profound life experiences for his daughter's ease, it's among those few scenes from the movie I can usually watch over and over again (along with the scene from which the freeze-frame is put up above), and yet can never have enough of...