The sun sets on another day, and boy do I wish I was here.
Today the scene of the day was cloudy gloomy and generally depressing. This was combined with cloudy, gloomy and depressing people. If we think about the movie “Blade Runner” for a second we understand that the rain can sometimes make us feel alive, and sometimes make us appreciate the things we really don’t appreciate much.
I have seen this movie a lot and unfortunately remember far too much in life and the main character Roy Batty never really appreciates the gift he has had of life until it is time for him to die. In that moment he saves the man who is trying to kill him and ends the movie with many thoughts we should all consider. In the end it is how we were that was important, and all the things we have done may be lost “Like tears in the rain”.
We grow up, our children grow up, their children will grow up, and someday we will all have our sunset, but in the process the most awesome gift we can give is not castles of marble and stone, nor money in the bank, nor beautiful cars, educations, ipads, ipods, phones, or even a home that never changes. Instead we should always show our children, our friends, our loved ones and everyone we know that love is more than just a word, it is a way of life. Be true to your heart.
Sir Walter Scott said it best with:
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
“This is my own, my native land!”
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentrated all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonor’d, and unsung.
Another day, the sun has set. Night has closed in, with the promise of a better tomorrow. (Better be telling the truth)