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by Edd_
written by Edd_

I just re-watched Tom Hank’s Cast Away for the first time in years. I never paid attention to these lines but now it makes a lot of sense. Maybe it can also turn your day around. Here goes:

“ I added it up, and knew that I had… lost her. ‘cos I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick, or get injured or something. The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen. So… I made a rope and I went up to the […]

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I watched the movie “Castaway” again today. “I am so sad…but I know what I have to do now.”

by isaac
written by isaac

I had forgotten how much that film resonated with me when it first came out; how I cried and cried because of the loss, the tragedy, the helplessness, the irresolute – albeit hopeful – ending.   The words still resonate with me today, now, even while contemplating my own will to exist:

 

“…We both had done the math.

Kelly added it all up…and knew she had to let me go.

I added it up, and knew that I’d…I’d lost her…’cause I was never going to get off that island. I was going to die there…totally alone…I mean, I was going to get sick, or get injured or something…

The […]

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