hoping and coping
excerpt from my English 11 reflection paper on the movie, The Mighty (1998):
"We live in a world of much drama. Tragedies and comedies abound. The Mighty plays out a piece from this world. We see there very familiar things: love, friendship, loss, people facing things, people coping with things, people learning, and more. Life's like that. We need to find ways to keep going, because, despite injuries, casualties, and wounds, there are still so many things that we could bump into along the way. Kevin and Max never knew that someday a special friendship would form between them. There was no tangible promise of good things to come during the course of their earlier traumas and struggles, but they didn't give up. Then they came to the day that they found the best kind of friend in each other—that was the prize.
These coping mechanisms, this is what they are for: so we could move on and find more to live for in life, even when we're knee-deep in mud. We find outlets so we can unload unnecessary pressures in the journey, so we can be refilled with better things. There is such a thing as hope and it propels us forward. It keeps us groping and going, finding our own fuel in literature or arts or any other media that we never really acknowledged could save a life.
This is us. The Mighty features us—we with our struggles and victories. It features our disabilities, our insecurities, and our traumas. It features our potentials, our redemption. It tells us, we are people, and there is plenty of strength we can find in the world and in ourselves, just within reach and ripe for easy picking."
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hmmm. just thoughts pondered and gleaned. what do you think? O_o
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