Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Time travel




I was packing today for our upcoming move. Every time I pack my stuff I waste inordinate amounts of time standing over a half packed box reading a book, or losing myself in a picture, time traveling to places I've already been. I have a posterboard with a map of my life that ends at age 27, when I made it. I always get lost in those pictures. Trying to remember who that gangly 9th grader is standing next to his equally gangly date to the dance. Wanting to talk to the muscular hairless 20 year old showing off his muscles. Its not about regret. Don't get me wrong, I've made mistakes, I'm just thru wishing I could change things. The road I have taken God used to make me into the person I am today, and I am happy to be me. But the person I am today is so much different than the "me's" in the pictures. I just wonder what were my priorities then? What drove me? What was I thinking about? Did I care for the people around me? I enjoy so much watching good movies time and time again to better understand the story. It just seems ironic that I only get one viewing of the most important story in my life. No second chance to pick up on foreshadowing or to listen to the master author give away where the story is going through the words of other characters. Only one chance to catch the significance.

OK on a different topic, just finished watching LOST. Its exciting to see where things are going. Toward the end of the episode John Locke started drawing the map of the hatch from memory and here is what we got. His map seemed to show the swan station at the bottom, but I'm not sure about the pine tree station. Does anyone out there remember what the name of the station was where they took Claire to steal her baby? Was it a snake?

2 Comments:

At 4/19/2006 7:54 PM, Blogger Emerging Kurt said...

I am interested to see where the story goes with LOST. I definetly think it encourgaes us to find the meaning in our own lives and to make decisions that matter. I have enjoyed watching characters demonstrate forgiveness, love, sacrifice.

It sounds like you were REALLY affected by V for Vendetta. I'd love to sit down for coffee and talk about it!

The letter from the forgotten woman was awesome. I think you are right it would take an extraordinary person and such excruciating circumstances. I pray I could be that strong if I ever found myself in similar circumstances.

I agree that the desire to punish is strongly connected to disconnection. I would be interested to hear what you mean by environmental. I would agree that my environment some times makes it easier to want to punish, but it still me that decides to be mad or be offended or to disconnect, which makes it easier for me to disconnect and want to punish.

 
At 5/11/2006 8:05 PM, Blogger Emerging Kurt said...

No, but you've piqued my interest. I will now.

 

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