Yesterday Erin and I had our weekly “date
night.” We went to catch a movie in the afternoon and then had dinner
immediately afterward. The film we saw was The
Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a loosely based adaptation of James Thurber’s
short story of the same name. We had wanted to see it during the winter break
from school but never had the time to do so. And, considering a former student
of mine heartily endorsed it, we chose that out of our options.
I’m not going to review the movie or
anything. It was pretty good overall and what I highly enjoyed were the
sweeping, breathtaking vistas of remote places like Iceland and the Himalayas
of Afghanistan. It was certainly a beautiful film from a cinematographic
perspective. But above even this, the single element I liked the most was the motto
of the LIFE magazine where Walter
worked:
To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind
walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of
life.
This was especially serendipitous to
see this quote in the movie because not an hour earlier in the day at school I
was having a conversation with a current student about life. It was tough for
me to distill the purpose of life to her in the moment, but I did mention love,
relationships, and having experiences both good and bad. It seemed uncanny to
me that this student and I just had a discussion about the purpose of life only
to see it unexpectedly in the movie.
What do you think of this quote? Is
it a good summation? How would you describe the purpose of life in general? The
purpose of your life specifically?
The purpose of my life is to help others as well as my self by making good choices and learning from my mistakes.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of my life is to help others as well as myself by making good choices and learning from my mistakes. Life is having good and bad experience, and learning to make the best of every situation.
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