It was a rainy, rainy night and I had just missed the previous movie showing due to rush hour and surprising traffic in the Taipei Metro.

I yet decided to go for whatever was shown next, I was already looking to get pleasantly surprised anyway, might as well just go for another movie I didn’t even know was even showing.

On the surface, Meets the World and its story is very approachable and quite fun to follow, yet its themes and plot lines stayed with me for a while and marinated into something pleasant to remember and ponder about.

Acceptance stands out as the biggest lesson of this movie, and ripples through my mind when I think about it.

Accepting to be helped and saved.

Accepting to let someone new enter your life and cheer up your views.

Accepting one’s quirks, not hiding them to partners or family.

Accepting to have lost a connection, to a lover or a child.

Accepting that others won’t change to be what we want them to be.

Accepting, and choosing to take a step forward, despite how much it hurts.

I’m happy I got to see this movie by chance.