he Return of the Jedi.....ahhh. How I love the Star Wars saga, and I know I'm not alone. Itresonates for a reason, that simple reason being it rests on the greatest themes of all time.
Lately this image from the end of ROTJ literally keeps appearing in my mind. Trying to figure it out I've realized that I have many friends who are grappling with the permanent scars life is lashing on them. Myself, I have angled to try to convince myself and others that these dramatic and painful events aren't permanent, that we can overcome, that by lending our thoughts and our efforts towards good -- towards The Force, if you'll forgive me -- is the way out.
I've always identified with Luke Skywalker from the "could go either way"perspective. I'm not an Obi Wan, always clear and focused, without doubts and never truly in peril. I recognize and look up to those people, but I could never claim to be them. (Maybe in about 30 years....)
But I'm not an Anakin all the way, either. I battle darkness, and anger, and the occasional conviction that I can overcome what hurts me with more hurt. But I don't really believe that. And I don't want the people I love to ever believe that either.
So I look at my friends in pain, and I see their turning point. And I think about my own. There are clear moments to me when the woman I could have been, the woman I wanted to be, was lost to this life. My personal spiritual beliefs tell me that even if we go the wrong way, we will be restored to who we could have been through love. But you know.....I want to see that person, those people, NOW.
My heart is hurting for the turning point of losing ourselves in this life.
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I ran across a quote the other day the made me sit up and pay attention, to wit: It's not too late to be what you could have been.
Connie (waving hi)
Connie, thanks for sharing that. It's good food for thought from the 30,000 foot level....though on the ground, there does seem to be a practical reality that doors close to us in this life. That is part of being human, part of making some choices over others.
Keeping a sense of responsibility for one's life is important, and often the last thing left when many other things are gone. I'll keep thinking...thanks again.
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