I just watched the movie "Two Weeks". Movies about death make me cry now. I'm not sure when I changed. As a child and teenager they didn't make me cry. I think it's because I can relate to them more now.
This movie is about a mom that is dying. She has cancer and the things that she and the family go through in the process of her death. Knowing people who have had parents die, seeing my own mom vulneerable with her heart problems, having kids of my own, death is more real to me now then it was 20 years ago. Maybe I'm stating this incorrectly. I don't know that death is more real to me, but the loss of life is closer to home.
I guess I feel closer to people in general now, but especially to my mom and my children. So watching this movie made me think of how my siblings and I would act/respond in that situation. How my own children will handle themselves in it. I don't want to die. I'd like to live till Jesus comes. I haven't always felt that way either. I don't know what's gotten into me. My guess, old age. :) I've been told for years "someday you'll understand." "Someday, you'll see." "Someday." I guess I have a few less "somedays" left then before.
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I've actually started thinking a lot more about mortality as well as of late. The more people I know who die the more real it becomes.
I don't know how I would handle it if I found out I only had a few weeks to live or if someone I was very close to did. I can imagine that it would really reset my priorities if I did, though.
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