THANK YOU FOR LIFE

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

I watched here the film "Capernaum" (2019, directed by Nadine Labaki). Sitting. Think.

Imagine that you are thrust into your hands with some incomprehensible object. How to use it - they did not teach, what exactly it is suitable for - it is not clear. There are vague guesses that it brings benefit and pleasure to some hypothetical other people. Others, but not you. Not for you, because you don't know what the hell it is, what to click on and how to exploit it.

And it would be okay if the subject is simply outlandish. And what if from the earliest years, as far as you can remember, this object hurts you: it will shock you, then the blade will release, then it squeals so that it clogs your ears. What if all you got from this strange item was only pain and suffering?

You are trying to talk about it with others (those hypothetical ones), talk about your misfortunes with this crap. But all you hear in response is: "You are an ungrateful brute! You should be glad that your parents gave you this! Be grateful for this magnificent, wonderful item!"

"Yes, fuck it, I need it ?! This thing only hurts and disgusts me!" And in the end, you are left alone with your pain, with the inability to even talk about it. Because everywhere you meet incomprehensible and condemning views.

"We must be grateful for life! Thank your parents!"

By the coffin of this very life (which you did not ask for) FOR-WHICH-NEED-TO-BE-GRATEFUL - owe to the parents who gave life to life. Like, here are the good fellows - they gave this garbage. Gift of life. Here. It is assumed that for this unprecedented thing, from which only problems, you also got stuck.

But what about when, instead of words of gratitude to the parents, the only thing I want to say is: "Forgive them, Lord, they did not know what they were doing!"

But what if instead of gratitude, the only thing you want to do is to sue your parents for giving SUCH a life?

What if it’s not a gift at all - life? What if the parents did not even have in their thoughts to give something to someone there? What if they were just having sex? And my birth is only a side (and it also happens that it is very undesirable) effect? But the life that I did not choose should be appreciated …

What if the gift was not planned for me? What if the parents actually wanted to make their lives better at the expense of my "gift"? They wanted to solve their problems: keep my husband in the family, get benefits, solve the housing issue, replenish the family with workforce, re-live their life from a "clean copy" at my expense. Finally, “it was just that it was necessary, it was“time "? What if the parents wanted this most outlandish object for themselves, and I - so, an appendage?

Googled the word "gratitude".

Gratitude is a feeling of appreciation for the good done. That is, it is a natural response, expressed in feelings, thoughts and actions, to something pleasant and useful. Gratitude cannot be inflated from scratch. For the fact that someone did me good, I "give good" in return. Good - in response to GOOD. Gratitude is a natural response to love, to warmth, to safety, to tenderness, to care, to interest. Gratitude doesn't have to be done. She is. If there is, why.

Be that as it may, a life that is filled with pain from an early age MAY BECOME your man-made good. It can become a good that you have already created yourself. It's like someone handed you a dirty, smelly rag, and you washed it, ironed it and sewed a festive costume. You may never be able to feel grateful to your parents, but you can feel grateful - to yourself. For creating something alive and beautiful out of something sick and terrible. And you can be proud of it.

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In general, the film is gorgeous, I highly recommend watching! The boy Zane (Zane in the movie and Zane in real life) played his part amazingly! That's who definitely deserves all kinds of awards for acting!