"I have dreamt in my life.......

it's amazing that no matter where you are if you only look for it you can

find meaning ;

last night i went to paranorman;  against my better judgement

or maybe in this case against my worse judgement.

because from the moment the movie started.. i loved it!

i began loving the animation, the quality

of art that went into it, the attention to detail.

then i began loving the characters and the 

quiet humor & wit the movie had.

then i fell in the love with the message.

in a world of media and literature that delights in the “good” taking revenge 
on the bad, i’ve  always gotten sort of squirmy in my seat and on my insides 
thinking “really is this what we want to hold up as good and right?” that if something 
or someone is bad to us we must somehow take it out on them or on others?

well let me tell you paranorman was refreshing

because of this very idea.  rather then seeking 

revenge, although he was treated very badly by

everyone, norman seeks to help another to forgive

and in turn never tries to seek retribution for himself.

what a concept.

that a movie can be made where no one is truly bad

but everyone is human and there’s one little boy who

knows that, and knows that along with the bad stuff 

there is the good, and to not take it out on others, but

to forgive.

“forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a 

miracle by which what is broken is made whole again,

what is soiled is again made clean” 

what would our world be like if everyone chose to forgive?