oh, oh , o~h.....sorry, for taking so long in following up
to answer your ?. ( i work for a living & work has been
extra busy lately. )
hope my beginning wasn't too confusing...because to respond
best , i wanted to share what the movie meant too me. and
to do that , i needed to add the "directions" i am using....
mostly the things i have discover from my own life journals.
my feelings not toward this movie...but all movies.....i lose
interest quickly when they are suggesting a "fantasy"
that has no chance in "reality".
to me, that define exactly ..why i get excited with the disney
classics movies...how much feelings they jammed into
the story that human beings are feeling.
death- being so negative due to the loss vs gain...makes it
even tougher, so i felt right away they///or anyone for that
matter,...must "build" some connections to reality, esp.
to life creator. just to add...what i am getting @....i don't
i ever seen better way to describe the value of love ,&
the pain of losing it..then " the sword in the stone--the
squirrel epsiode..every single line , every word...esp.
"merlin's observation...made the point- that the most
important goal in life, is finding someone special to
share your time with.
*so based on my feelings, "is why" this movie didn't work
for me.
however, being a part of the medical field for more years
i care to confess .. & happenstances , would add the
realities that i have been privileged too....for your consideration,
death- is something we all must do by our self ...just like
being born except the closer. ( i am amazed of this
fact because if things were different....then it wouldn't
necessary have this "condition" so i think there is a reason
why & it is importany beyond our understanding. )
part of my career ...was 8 years..in doing intensive care.
while preserving /protecting life, also witnessed there are
things worst than dying.
no person lives a long life. 100 years...isn't long. we all
live life or we exist ...some longer/shorter than others.
i think living well is simply not wasting our time. & if
we developed our maturity through education,
appreciation, plus propensity....so much we can gain.
that learning all of this....& 2 the end of every day,
life is always worth living.
"take nothing with us". i don't think that is 100% accurate.
but i do think it is a good thing to recognize because
"what" we leave behind....is more important to us
after we passed.
speaking of (head) banger , have you ever look in the merriam-
webster dictionary & how many references to "life"'s
matters... that used a "death" word toward a state of being?
( dead beat, dead end, dead heat, dead pan, deadly
sin....one could make a story by adding actual
experiences)
yes, i think all the different responses here are all correct because
it covers a range as well as a single point....
one thing i observed, no person regardless how close by
illness or misfortune, ever accept death- is going to
happen to them. to me, that makes a lot of sense , because
life is so precious & make up our greatest value.
therefore, it offer "up" the directions we should best follow-
to spend our time wisely. while there are choices
we can make, those spending time in anger,
jealously, harming others.....is restricted by losing "time"
in happiness & joy.
death, have conditions. some are very hard to figure
out ....my parent shave passed over 30 years ago...
yet they had 10 kids , that are part of their bodies,
still living. my daughter has her grandmother beautiful
red hair even though my wife 's is snow white black.
she never met her. but one day when she was 3, there
she was, acting just like her. it created a happy memory
for me... in reminding how important my mother was
in my life. i always heard growing up, nobody loves
you more than your mother--& this reminded me
why.
i don't remember many dreams , but i did one from the
80's....where we went to the cemetery to pay respect
to my father....but he was walking up to us....&
i told him, "you can't being do this", but he said "why
not"..that woke me up. give me the jimmy's &
still don't have a clue why i dream that,....except maybe
"i " don't know a lot about it.
.....i also heard that in a life's time....a person come very close
to death several times. being in the health field, has provided
many examples of this being true. one thing that has been
interesting too me in health care, are human dynamics
designed to preserve & "protect " life...we have numerous
back~up systems. this fact is amazing too me.
sports greatest value too me, is getting people to work together
based on a common ground. ever noticed how many college
football stories are "encounters" with fans facing major life
issues & their favorite team/star? any activity that produces
"hope" has value- many values. * during my career, can't
tell how many times where "hope" from a supportive family
made the difference.....i may practice in the medicine field, but
faith does the healing. just saying....what i experienced the last
30+ years.
on the flipped side.....i believe the biggest/#1 "cause" of
death , is stupidity. or the more specific de~tail ruling,
"not respecting the dangers/risks to life." .....all one needs
to do..is watch tv shows....about the world dumbest &
so forth. is the "attention" worth the risks/pain /agony?
that's the selling point about maturity...those against learning,
don't live long, successful life.
, so sorry for presenting so many strong feelings.
but the topic has held my interest for years... in hoping to
provide better health care. but the movie, not so much.
