Maybe we all have a destiny – but we’re misled if we think that we don’t have to earn it or that we can know what it is before it comes. Maybe he had to scream at God from the top of that boat in that storm to come out on the other side. Maybe the folks at the VA were right when they told Dan that “God listening, but have to help ” first. Maybe what’s happening around us isn’t within our control but maybe we can change it completely for ourselves – both the courses our lives are taking and the outcomes themselves – just by changing our perspective on it. Because when your perceived destiny takes a turn – like in being denied the chance to die on the field with your platoon – you’re going to lose your way.Īnd it got me to thinking…maybe it’s both. Nothing is predetermined and you’ve just got to scrap your head above water sometimes and take care of the people you love.īut Dan. But in the meantime she makes the best of every situation and does whatever she has to do – whether it’s bringing the principal of Greenbow Country Central home to get her son into regular school or having Forrest pose with a paddle he’d never used – to see that he has everything that he needs to get through life. Prep as best you can but then be ready to roll with the punches.įor his mother, when her time comes, it’s just her time. Maybe life is a lot like planning a Disney trip, too.
And how they’re both a little right in their own way.īecause even if “life is like a box of chocolates” – you should both take the time to read the guide on the sampler AND make the best of it if you mistakenly bite into a raspberry gel along the way. The mindset of his mother, and the mindset of Lt.
THE CASTLE RUNNER MOVIE
Because I understood – more now than I remember understanding before – that it’s really a movie torn between two life mindsets. Or maybe I was watching with new eyes now. Maybe I got it completely and had just long since forgotten. I don’t know how much I fully understood this movie when I first watched it as a teenager. “Mama always said, ‘Put the past behind you before you can move on.’ And I think that’s what my running was all about.”Īnyway, I’m not going to spend long typing today because I’m really focusing on the boys, but I wanted to take a minute to write this now: Like when he’s running…the things he says. I honestly don’t know that I’ve sat down and properly watched it through since I was a teenager and I guess I’d either forgotten how the whole thing comes together or I’m just watching with very different eyes. It might not have been the right thing to put on when I was already feeling pretty emotionally raw but hey – here we are. It ended about 30 minutes ago and the kids are fine but I’m a total mess. (Apparently it was released TWENTY-NINE years ago? On what planet is that possible?) So on it went.
I saw Forrest Gump come up on Netflix and realized it was only rated PG-13 and that I probably hadn’t properly watched it start to finish in 20 years. (One day I’ll learn to stop feeling the need to justify down time but old dogs take a long time to learn new tricks…so here we are.) I figure I’ve done enough stuff in the last month or two to justify an afternoon of down time. So today the boys and I are relaxing at home – with this cold weather it feels totally justified – and giving ourselves a bit of a pass on most of our responsibilities. It’s always hard to fall back into our usual schedule after having them around all of the time. My mom and Sam left today after being here with us for almost a month – through Christmas and New Year’s and Dopey and everything else!! Lots of tears.
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