Tuesday, December 18, 2012

A Light in the Midst of Darkness

Yes, there are lots and lots of awful things that happen everyday, but I feel that we shouldn't focus so much on the bad. Although we all need our time to grieve and we should never ignore the bad things that happen, we should not dwell on them. I was watching the Lord of the Rings while I was thinking about this and it came to the part at the end of The Two Towers where Sam gives his monologue and I thought, if everyone was more like Sam the world would be a better place.It's one of the few parts of a movie that's made me cry. For reference Sam says:
      "I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something."
By this point I am pretty teary eyed, but that's beside the point. Sam points out that there is bad in the world, that the journey can and will be scary and sometimes it seems like there is no good in the world. But people still keep moving forward. Why do we? Frodo asks Sam this and Sam answers:
     "That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for"
We need to hold on to the fact that there is good in the world and that even in the darkest of times when it seems like there is no light we need to fight for that light because it's still there it's just a little harder to see. 

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