So today I decided that I was going to watch "It's A Wonderful Life" the old classic movie...the one that a bunch of people watch on Christmas Eve. My parents used to watch "It's A Wonderful Life" when ever they wrapped Christmas Presents and I have just always enjoyed watching it.
The story of a man who is more important to his town than he thinks he is, although he always thought that he'd missed out on his life. He regretted everything. He wished that he'd never been born. And that's where the story takes its turn. George Baily begins to realize that things are a lot different since he wished he'd never been born. The miser of the town has it named after him. The bar that his friend used to own is no longer his. His brother is an only child. His wife is a old maid. (She said in the movie that she would have been an old maid if not for George, and he gets to see just how much she meant that.) And he gets to see first hand just how different things are without him.
Everything is different and NOTHING is the same. He wished he wasn't born and that's just what happened. He wasn't born. I'm sure we all have times where we wish we hadn't been born or that we wish that our lives were different. But the truth is that things happen for a reason. There's a reason for everything and everyone. Everyone has a purpose. Clearance says something very interesting and very true when George is starting to realize that no one knows who he is. He says: "Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"
Each of our lives touches others. Its how we react to things and how we grow that effects every other life of every other person that we know. When we make a decision it doesn't just effect us, but every one else associated with us. Another vital thing that Clearance says is: "You see, George? You really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be...to throw it away?" To think that our lives and the decisions that we make only effect us are completely wrong. Everything that we do effects the lives of everyone else.
Though there are some things in my life that I don't like and wish had turned out differently...I can't say that I feel the same way I did about it before. Watching "It's A Wonderful Life" not just for the sake of Christmas, but just because has opened my eyes to everything in my life that I've ever wished was different, everything that I wish hadn't happened.
I love my life and I can't imagine it being any other way...my life, though short as it is, is soooo much more important than I ever thought possible. I love my life. Because it truly is, a wonderful life...
Until my next ramble,
Nicole Louise
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