Jumping
Life is complicated. This is something I have come to realize. I was watching Dead Like Me…which is pretty much a nightly ritual (I know..it’s a problem…but have you SEEN that show? I mean come on..awesomeness on tap.)….and something was said that I felt was blogworthy. It seemed very relevant to several current situations. Here it is.
Set up- (Riverside. Betty has just pulled herself out of the water after jumping off of a nearby cliff.)
Rube: Where you off to?
Betty: I’m going again. That was a hoot.
Rube: Oh, you like falling do you?
Betty: Well it’s not the falling, it’s the jumping.
Rube: Well, you know, I’d feel a whole lot better about the jumping if it weren’t for the falling.
Betty: Falling’s easy. You just fall. Jumping requires strength of will.
Rube: Unless you’re on a plank.
Betty: Then it isn’t your choice, but if it is, it’s the best feeling in the world.
Rube: And you don’t care where you land?
Betty: Landing’s a lot like falling. You just land.
Rube: (chuckles)You’re a force of nature.
Betty: You should really try the jumping. It’s the greatest feeling in the world.
So today I am going to close a little differently. You must have the strength of will to jump. Be confident that you will land where you are supposed to. Our friends and family are the cushion that will catch us. And I know that my cushion will never fail to support me when I jump. Be a jumper. Be a force of nature. And love every minute of it.
2 comments:
True, true. Jumping into an unknown abyss does indeed require an enormous strength of will. However, in the extended "original" scene (disc three: u,d,u,u,select,left)you see that the older but still beautiful on the outside ingenue does not so much fall as she does slip. Slipping requires no such strength of will. Slipping only requires the indifference of no action. For some, an easy thing to do. As Betty is slipping, Rube tries despairingly to point out what is happening. Betty, head down and staring at the ground acts as though she is not even aware of his presence, as her current situation worsens. In actuality the scene ran a painfull four years long and was later heavily re-edited into the inspirational scene you speak up. Rube leaves. The series is cancelled, and lost fans still religiously watch and quote a series about death instead of dealing with life.
You're gonna have to study your Dead Like Me a little closer there. Betty wasn't slipping...she was only caught by suprise when the other person who was jumping with her didn't follow suit. And as far as the cancellation and the dealing with life....Lets look around and see what's going on and not point fingers at anyone. I am not angry at anyone...never was...so stop reading that into things and deal with the reality in the situation rather than making others out to be the villian in the melodrama.
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