I’m in Centrale these days, all alone, and waiting to go home. Having nothing to do, I decided to finish the final season of Friends, a play that I started watching at the beginning of prépa. To be honest, I always found the play interesting but I didn’t consider it an amazing work. But I changed all my opinion when I finished the play yesterday. I had decided to go to bed at midnight but in fact I watched the play until 3:30 am. I felt warm and touched when watching the final season. All along I was waiting for Ross and Rachel to get together. They did, but not until the last minute of the last episode.

I feel like that the characters in the play do exist. They laugh, cry, hope and regret, etc. They are alive.

So many things happened in the last episode and I was never so eager to continue watching during it. I felt like that something in my mind suddenly changed and I got to realize something really important about life.

There was one scene that touched me deeply. It was when Monica and Chandler wanted to adopt a child. Chandler rushed out to persuade the woman to give them the baby and he said: “My wife is an incredible woman. She is loving, devoted and caring. Don’t tell her this but the woman is always right. I love my wife more than anything in this world and it kills me that I can’t give her a baby.” I had never really considered Monica and Chandler as a fancy couple. They got together so ridiculously. Chandler is no handsome and makes dull jokes. Monica has such a desire of controlling. Their life is often, Monica yelling and Chandler saying yes. But at that moment, I saw that a deep love lies between them. Chandler does love Monica and he loves her for a reason that he never said before—“She is loving, devoted and caring”, which is such an obvious aspect of Monica and which I had never noticed.

I like every one of them very much. I find that I can find a part of myself in each of the three girls. Most of the time, I feel like Rachel, because I’m just as sensitive a girl as she is. However sometimes I like being energetic and hardworking as Monica. What’s more I’ve got in my soul the desire of being adventurous and rule-breaking as Phoebe. Among all the boys, I love Ross the most, him and his cute dinosaurs. I just laughed so hard when Ross hesitated before the question:“ Which one would you give up, sex or dinosaurs?”

At the beginning, I just considered Friends to be an infinite game of dating which is a part of the American culture. But at last I was so moved that almost every one of them found their true love, except Joey though. It was a good and sad ending. The sad thing is that they’re going to be apart from each other after 10 years of precious friendship. The good thing is that most of them started a happy family and a satisfying career. I’ve got to comment on Ross and Rachel. They’re just so meant to be together. How hard it is to imagine that things just didn’t work out for them for 7 years. What a precious reunion. It’s gonna be a lifetime love. I’ve really got quite angry when Ross couldn’t see the love between them and wouldn’t face the truth again and again. When at last, the sound of “I love you” echoed on the phone recorder, I just couldn’t stop crying.

One thing more, the actors and actresses of this play are all cute guys and pretty ladies. The actor of Joey is so much more handsome in real life than in the play. They all said that they enjoyed the play so much. This is not just for entertaining, “It’s been an education, it’s been a love affair, it’s been friendship and it’s been amazing.”

So after all these, I tell myself:

Be generous Be tolerant Be helpful Be loving Be kind Be sincere BE

Never be aggressive Never be pretentious Never be selfish Never be hostile NEVER BE

AND follow your heart

(Song in the end which I dictated, probably some mistakes)

You’re packing a suitcase for a place that none of us has been

A place that has to be believed to be seen

Oh you’re flying away

A singing bird in an open cage

Will only fly only fly for freedom

Oh walk on walk on

What you’ve got

You can’t deny it can’t sell it or buy it

Walk on walk on

Stay safe tonight

I know it hurts so much

Your heart breaks

All these days you suffer

Walk on

All that you fashion

All that you make

All that you build

All that you break

All that you measure

All that you feel

All that you leave behind

All that you reason

It’s only time

Though that’ll never fill all my heart

All that you sense

All that you schedule

All that you dress up

All that you see

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