Sunday, March 22, 2009

Thank you for saving my life




"Thank you for saving my life."
These words were said at the end of the beautifully made movie "Lady in the water," by one of my favourite directors, M Night Shyamalan. (If you want to watch the movie first, do that and then read this blog!)) These simple words ended the movie, and held such power, grace and unbelievable synopsis of the whole movie. These few words were so emotive in their saying, that you could not help being swept up in the emotion of it all. Why are these six words so prefound?

In the above mentioned movie, the landlord is holding onto a lady that he has to let go, so she can return to her home. I wish I could show you a clip, but in essence he is thanking her for letting him see that his life needed healing and purpose and in her actions throughout the movie, she had allowed him to deal with the past pains and realise life was open again to breathe in. "Thank you for saving my life." This was not a statement from someone who was saved by being pushed away from an oncoming bus. This was a statement that held all his life in it. I think we need to realise the two differences. I definitely want to be saved from an oncoming bus, have my parachute open when I skydive, have someone holding the rope down below as I rock climb BUT I feel I want to rather be like the man in the movie who said (and here in my words)

"Thank you for letting me see how held back I was by so many things in my life. My hurts, anger, resentmets, scars and disapointments in me and my life." Coming to a realisation that life is something bigger than me, and that the healing can begin inside.

"Thank You for saving me." Think about that one - and get saved from an oncoming bus later.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wonderful.

And wonderful movie, too.