This is one of the most moving movies I’ve ever seen.
I understand that the story was painted on a hollywood canvas, but still.
What really hit home for me was so much of the movie taking place in the prison. Thinking about that…how do you stay alive with nothing to look forward to? How do you keep your heart, your resolve, your will to learn and grow and evolve, when everything says it’s pointless, you’ve lost your humanity?
It seems like such an impossible task. And yet, men like Reuben Carter manage to do it under those circumstances.
Movies like this are a great reminder for me – I HAVE MY FREEDOM. Is my resolve to USE my freedom that strong? Am I reading, writing, buffeting my body to become all that my potential will allow me to be?
Or do I get lazy, calloused by the easy life of freedom…ah, freedom. I can do what I want, when I want. Learning, growing, human evolution…it’s not mandatory for mere existence, survival. I can choose to just waste away if I want to.
Or, instead I can choose to bust out of my prison of apathy by loving myself enough to seize every living moment of freedom that I have been blessed with and see how much living I can get out of it, I can push myself to find my limits and then bust through them, to never lose hope, to never give in or slow down…
If I could have the resolve that he had for even just one year, without fail, every waking moment of every day, while I sleep, in my subconscious…what would that one year produce?
4 years? 9 years? Until I’m gone years?
No to complacency, no to average, no to good enough…no to anything that is not directly in line with the one and only goal of my life’s potential: GREATNESS.