In my adult life I never thought that I would learn the biggest lesson I could ever learn in life, from a kid. It all started when I watched a movie I missed seeing when it was first shown in theaters. Please allow me to tell you about it.
Of the hundreds of movies I have seen so far, only one made a profound, life-changing impact on me. Essentially, in watching the movie, I learned what I think is the most important lesson about living, from a kid.
All my life, people I know kept telling me I am a good man. I never bothered to study myself to find out if they were right. I simply took their word for it and went on with my life believing that what they said of me was true ... until ... I watched the movie, Pay It Forward.
Then, I realized, I was not really the good man I thought I have always been, after all. I've been living a lie.
The movie revealed what I have come to see as a major flaw in my character. It hit hard where my ego hurt the most: the realization that I was selfish all along. I wasn't doing what a real good man was supposed to be doing. And that is: doing good from the heart with no strings attached.
Yes I did good, countless times, but I did only when asked. Very rarely did I volunteer to do good.
Of the hundreds of movies I have seen so far, only one made a profound, life-changing impact on me. Essentially, in watching the movie, I learned what I think is the most important lesson about living, from a kid.
All my life, people I know kept telling me I am a good man. I never bothered to study myself to find out if they were right. I simply took their word for it and went on with my life believing that what they said of me was true ... until ... I watched the movie, Pay It Forward.
Then, I realized, I was not really the good man I thought I have always been, after all. I've been living a lie.
The movie revealed what I have come to see as a major flaw in my character. It hit hard where my ego hurt the most: the realization that I was selfish all along. I wasn't doing what a real good man was supposed to be doing. And that is: doing good from the heart with no strings attached.
Yes I did good, countless times, but I did only when asked. Very rarely did I volunteer to do good.
Thank God for the movie, I came to my senses. My life was never the same again afterwards. There's a lot more that I need to work on in making things right about myself and I cannot expect to be perfectly good in my physical life, but I'm making progress.
Along the lines of "paying it forward," all I want to do now is pass on to others the many good things ...
