So this weekend, I decided to fork over the $9 to go and see a movie in the theatre. Call me stupid or crazy, and yes it pretty much was both. But oh well, I only do it once every 6 months or so. There are a couple of movies that I really wanted to get out and see. One was Shooter and the other was Reign Over Me. I took Jamie along with me, so we opted for the less hard core movie Reign Over Me.
The movie had Adam Sandler and Don Cheatle as the main characters. Adam Sandler was playing a character called Charlie Fineman. Sandler plays a guy who loses his wife and three daughters in the 9/11 plane crashes. Four years later, he still can't remember and actually chooses not to remember the whole tragedy. He meets an old friend, who is played by Cheatle, who helps him to recover and start to rehabilitate. The movie was both funny and deeply thoughtful. And it seemed to leave just enough answers unanswered to provoke a good conversation about it.
I won't go through the entire movie and what it's about, but I really enjoyed it. The reason that I enjoyed it was that it made me think. It was a "thinking movie." It made me think a little bit about what really matters, and how I would react to a similar situation as the character was going through. Tell you what, I don't think people think enough about what really matters in life. I know that I don't.
It's so funny how with most people, only really rough times or when things don't go the way they had planned or even an unexpected tragedy of some sort, will cause them to take a minute and stop and realize what really matters. Imagine if people lived that way every day of their lives. This world would be quite a different place. But I am not here to babble about world and society and people and how those people should live. But just to appreciate what really matters...family, friends, what you learn and how you treat people. That is what I would put as the stuff that really matters.
I am grateful for the family that I have, and also for the friends that I have. I have learned a whole lot and hope to learn a lot more about life and people and things. I try to treat people as I would want to be treated each day of my life, but surely fall short of that goal often. And in those cases, I am really thankful for and find peace of mind in something called "tomorrow."
See you all next time.
See you all next time.
