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If I ever leave this world alive
Anna and I took a night out to the movie-plex last night and saw the movie "P.S. I love you". The movie is about a young widow who is coping with the untimely passing of her husband. The movie is extremely emotional, especially if you can relate or imagine the devastation that one would experience if they lost their spouse at a young age. Throughout the movie the widow experiences times of regret; she regrets being mad at her husband for, what now, seem like trivial things; she regrets not always enjoying her husband when she had him. These regrets are only temporary and unfounded, as she was a good wife and her husband was a good husband, but in her grief she questions herself.
The movie was a good eye-opener and helped once again to remind me of the important things in life. For some reason the important things in life seem to so easily become over-shadowed by the life around us. I have always come to blame this on our culture. In our culture it seems that we so easily flood ourselves with meaningless things and over-complicate life. We have jobs, money, loans, debt, mortgages, car payments, car maintenance, cable TV bills, committees, meetings, meetings about meetings, etc. The list can go on and on. I sometimes find myself observing these things and thinking that humans don't need these things. What happened to the "simpler" times? Did we as a human race ever have simpler times? Before the modern era, before modern medicine what we had to worry about was surviving. I sometimes think that this would be simpler, more meaningful. But I also need to remind myself that these times were probably not as simple as I imagine. Wars, murders, disease, indentured servitude, debt, all these things existed. We may sometimes over-complicate life with the fluff around us, but its not really a change, is it? The complication of life hasn't emerged in the past century, it has just evolved.
This leads me somewhat closer to my point. Throughout time we have had to squint through the mist of complication in life to see what is really within, what really lies in the center, what is core to our existence. For some reason we just need continual reminders. We need continual reminders that tomorrow will not always be there. That tomorrow does die. We can't always put off forgiving or asking for forgiveness as we may not have the chance. Just as we can't put off many other things in life. Live every day as it could be your last, don't take the small things in life for granted, enjoy them. In no way is this a call for leading irresponsible lives indulging in the lustful passions of the world. Instead the opposite, life passes us by and we need to step in and savor every moment leading a life that when our Maker does come calling we can truthfully say that we enjoyed the blessings in our lives He granted.
The movie ended with a scene in which the follow statement was said and it really stuck out to me, as it is very true:
"Life, nobody gets out alive."
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