Thoughts after The I-Heart Movie
Okay, this entry may look a little messy.
I really was just jotting down whatever comes through my mind after watching it.
During the movie, I even wish that I can just magically have a copy of what I think while I was thinking it without missing the movie.
The movie in terms of cinematography is not the state of the art. It's a good enough documentary but the message of it is clear, compelling and strong.
Here it is:
I don’t know anything. I really do not know anything. This is how the movie make me feel.
I don’t think anything that I know right now is significant for this world.
But one thing I am sure, Love. His Love. I know His love is sure and unconditional.
And maybe, with this one thing, I can do enough to make a change, even slightly.
“I like to be different, like the other different people that I would like to be”
It is about identity.
What are we striving for? Human race is not a competition. We thrive, strive, running to be the front in this so called competition where we don’t even know the end of the line. We don’t know the destination.
And this so called success, power, it will never be enough. It is always be around the corner.
Then why is it always about us, me, one individual if we don’t know what we’re looking for?
Why don’t we, instead, just focus our energy to living the moment, and be together? We are so keen in fixing the future, or change the future that we miss the moment.
We are all in the same moment. It may look different in diff parts of the world. diff times, diff climate, diff weather, diff looks, diff condition, but same moment. the moment that cannot be retrieve back.
I like how in the movie it says that ‘There is people saying that we are the future. yeah I agree, but we’re not just the future. we are also the present’
The condition that we live in today is here because of the decision of our past generations. It is the result of the actions and decision of the generation before us.
This is our moment. This is our time. What are we going to do and decide right now for the generations to come? For the possibilities of a better world, ideas, concept which can be shaped by our decision right now, this moment.
It is interesting that we so want to be different where in the end we are pretty much the same. Looking for the one thing, value.
It is interesting that 5 companies in America controls 90% of what we see, heard and read. And out of all that, all other countries looking at America as an example, trendsetter.
Knowing this stats, are you sure we’re that different?
I have noticed that most of the past revolutions consist of young people. youth that are not happy or content with how the things go.
We as a young people, we have a drive, passion, an energy. An unexperienced dream that is not touched/polished yet wanting a better world.
If we can utilise or mobilise this drive, passion to the right thing, it’s right, it’s going to be bigger than a revolution.
We have the atomic bomb-like passion and energy, why not use it, utilise it while we can? while we are young.
If we just shift our focus from being different, being wanting to be recognised, doing whatever the society wants us to do, to be into this generation that spread God’s love and unselfless act, giving without taking credits (cos there is nothing for us to gain), then I think it can be a better world.
There are so much thought come out of this movie, that I cannot even talk about it with friend who were watching it with me.
We just smile and said ‘yeah’ without saying anything. We don’t know what to discuss, we tried but in the end I think we all know that we need to pull out and ponder on some thoughts.
I hope we don’t just get inspired for the first 2 weeks and then dies out. Like a friend, J, said, it is something that we easily forget. But I hope at least there’s a thought, a conclusion, a revelation coming out of it, if it’s not an action.
It is not about us giving to charity and give our money and then feel good about it. It is us constantly showing God’s love in people’s lives. In the lives of the people around us. Constantly. Day by day.
This way we are preaching the Gospel, showing God’s love. Acting on it, instead of just gather week by week together with our Christian friends.
We are the church, we don’t need to wait for our call. our call is to reach out to the people next to us, around us. I know this sounds cliché and has been said and done before. But I think for me, this takes to a different meaning today. I really feel I don’t know anything. I don’t think I can do anything. Yet maybe, just maybe, being nice to the people at work, the customers, to the coffee guy, the reception do make an impact. Showing love to colleague, giving our change to the homeless, do make the difference?
And hopefully by showing these people around us God’s love, it will create a ripple and network and it continues onward.
Now, are we too optimistic about this? Is it really that easy as we put it? Is that little action in my daily life will make a different to this world?
Is it just by loving daily we will create this ‘bigger-than-revolution’ love, fight the injustice?
I, myself, am not sure about this. I still feel incapable of doing something and think what is this lil thing even mean anything to this big world.
J puts it ‘It is hard’. Just to create a ripple is not as easy as it sounds. I think even to sustain a ripple is hard.
Or are we too pessimistic?
Not even believing of something can be different. And already think of the negative outcomes of it.
then again, there is always poverty to address to, there’s always a natural disaster to fix, there’s always a conflict to settle.
We can’t fix everything or fix one thing and expect it never comes back again. But at least we’re doing something. And that something with the others something around the world accumulate to big thing.
Even if it will not result into a better thing, you will not know unless you try.
At least we’re trying. Will you not question yourself if you’re not trying?
So what am I trying to say?
I don’t know. These are just the thoughts reeling on my mind. It is a mess, it is totally challenged. I don't know.
I don't think I dare enough to be the person of "Yeah, let's make the change! Yeah! Let's do something!" and be fired up. And then what?
I am afraid that I will be the person who is inspired and flaming for the first few weeks then settled after. And I really hope it won't result that way.
I think it comes down to identity. Of knowing where is our value and identity. When we know who we are in Christ. If every human being know what their self-worth in Christ and their value and what they are made for. Then none of this striving, thriving or achieving to be the first would happen. We would have a better way to distribute resources. Half of the injustice issues would not even exist.
I think ultimately if we receive His Grace and understand that His love is unconditional, it will compel us to move, to act and transfer this love outwards.
