But,
If you make yourself more than just a man...
If you Devote yourself to an ideal...
And if they can't stop you...
Then you become something else entirely.
A legendary, superhuman-like presence and persona
has always drawn me in.
When it comes to the label - superhuman
all that the world knows is -
movies and comic books.
That is expected.
Because the world is only interested
in how things can be.
Not how things can really be.
That is,
the world lives for
imagination and imagination alone.
And that is okay.
I have learned a whole deal from movies as well.
Albeit, from a handful.
The Matrix,
The Bourne movies,
The Dark Knight movies.
These three
have easily been the "Bible" (or Koran or Gita or equivalent)
of my life.
Immersing in these movies
planted the seed of
The Destination
long before I realized
that I was headed there.
To this day,
the few who know me closely
will tell you that I have
watched and watched and re-watched these movies
about 50- 100 times each.
Most of the Friday nights
in my boyhood were a re-watch
of one of these three.
However...
It is Today
I Understand...
Behind my pickiness,
Of completely ignoring "movies" over these
few depictions of that which a man truly craves.
It is Today
I Understand...
While everyone
was simply watching these movies,
the entity
deep in me was doing
something else.
It was unearthing the things
that were keeping it from
Being
what it was shown.
It is Today
I Understand...
Re-watching
was relentlessly seeking an answer -
what is it that I do not yet understand -
about Bruce Wayne, James A. Anderson, or David Webb?
And it is Today -
I DO.
Behind the veils of
exuberance,
self-discipline
and cinematic glory,
these characters
were ultimately seeking...
...The Truth.
And so
was I.
Thank you.