Sunday, February 25, 2007

Hope

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies." in a letter from Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) to Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman) in The Shawshank Redemption (1994).

Check out this conversation between Frank Towns (Dennis Quaid) and Liddle (Scott Michael Campbell) in Flight of the Phoenix (2004). if you haven't seen this movie, basically it's about a bunch of half-naked guys who got stuck in the middle of Mongolian desert, trying to survive and hoping to make it out alive by building a plane.

Frank Towns: Why give people false hope?
Liddle: Come on man.Most folks spend their whole lives holding on to hopes and dreams that are never going to come true but they hold on to them. Why are you going to give up on them now when you need them most?
Frank Towns: You are assuming I'm one of those people who has hopes and dreams.
Liddle: I find it hard to believe that a man who learns to fly never had a dream.
Frank Towns: Look, how can I let those people build that plane when I don't believe it will work? And, every day they waste trying to build it brings them one day closer to dying.
Liddle: I think a man only needs one thing in life. He just needs someone to love. If you can't give him that, then give him something to hope for. And if you can't give him that, just give him something to do.
Frank Towns: James, you'll never make it.
Liddle: Then I'll die trying. There are people counting on me.
Frank Towns: Okay, Okay, Okay. Okay. We'll build it.

deep shit eh? i agree for the most part. indeed, a man or a woman needs someone to love, but it shouldn't be one sided. he or she also needs to be loved.

the need to love and to be loved.

just my 2cents at 4:48 PM |

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