Edited by Casper Smith, Monday, 22 Feb 2021, 13:20
Sat watching the 1951 version of A Christmas Carole with Alistair Sim, with my beautiful Mother, this film chokes me every time, infract, every year it chokes me that little bit more. My Fathers side of the family were very money orientated and scrooge is a good reflection of their nature. In contrast my Mother's side of the family could not be more loving, caring and giving if their lives depended on it. Unlike The Christmas Carole, I was never able to see the change in my Father before his murder. Because of my Fathers teachings, I learned and believed that the world was a horrible place and people were out to get me, that I should never trust them and get in there first. While, all the time I was hoping, watching and waiting to see my Fathers change, during this process I missed the all important change of my own belief system of the world and the people in it. Its not until I watch things like 'The Christmas Carole that I am reminded that, firstly, just because I never got to see my Fathers change, a change is still possible, secondly, that I can and did make a change and thirdly, I now see the world as a beautiful place and also the living beings on it. Good or bad, right or wrong, are just perceptions from one to another to comfort us as life unveils it self to us individually. The process of birth, involving the life giving female and the life receiving being is the most natural beauty that human nature can behold, whilst the changing of the seasons and the rise and fall of the sun is the most beauty that the world can behold. It really is that simple to me now. I guess thats why The Christmas Carole chokes me, embracing the change as opposed to the fear of change, I will never let change fear me again.
Day 78 of OU studies.
Sat watching the 1951 version of A Christmas Carole with Alistair Sim, with my beautiful Mother, this film chokes me every time, infract, every year it chokes me that little bit more. My Fathers side of the family were very money orientated and scrooge is a good reflection of their nature. In contrast my Mother's side of the family could not be more loving, caring and giving if their lives depended on it. Unlike The Christmas Carole, I was never able to see the change in my Father before his murder. Because of my Fathers teachings, I learned and believed that the world was a horrible place and people were out to get me, that I should never trust them and get in there first. While, all the time I was hoping, watching and waiting to see my Fathers change, during this process I missed the all important change of my own belief system of the world and the people in it. Its not until I watch things like 'The Christmas Carole that I am reminded that, firstly, just because I never got to see my Fathers change, a change is still possible, secondly, that I can and did make a change and thirdly, I now see the world as a beautiful place and also the living beings on it. Good or bad, right or wrong, are just perceptions from one to another to comfort us as life unveils it self to us individually. The process of birth, involving the life giving female and the life receiving being is the most natural beauty that human nature can behold, whilst the changing of the seasons and the rise and fall of the sun is the most beauty that the world can behold. It really is that simple to me now. I guess thats why The Christmas Carole chokes me, embracing the change as opposed to the fear of change, I will never let change fear me again.
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