Every
time the movie The Martian comes on TV, I watch it. It does not matter how much of it I have
missed. I love it all. I have the book on my TBR pile but have not
had the time to read it. I hear it is
better than the movie, but for now, it is me and Matt Damon.
I love
the character Mark Watney and I love the way Matt Damon portrays him. The determination of the human spirit to
succeed against steep odds speaks to me.
At the end of the movie, when Mark Watney introduces himself to the
astronaut candidates, he voices the theme of the movie: to succeed in life, you
solve one problem, then the next, then another, and so on.
I totally
agree. Life is a mixture of courage and
confidence. Courage is the embodiment of
all the good traits inside a person, and confidence is trusting in those traits
to get the job done, no matter how impossible, uncomfortable, or challenging.
Life is
never giving up hope. It is Plan B after Plan A blows up in your face, followed
by Plan C and D and so on until you run out of alphabet and you start using
numbers. It is fighting until the very end.
I have
had my share of challenges, some sad and some silly. All of them have made my life memorable. One key I use when in doubt is to ask myself,
“If I do not do this, will I regret it?”
If the answer is yes, then I find the courage or the confidence to
try. It does not always get me the
result I wanted, but I have never regretted trying.
One of
the most amazing secondary themes of the movie The Martian is the resilience of
the character. He persists with patience
and hope and humor. And grace. He knows himself better than anyone. He knows what he needs to keep going. He depends on himself, his intelligence and
perseverance, and he goes to it in a methodical manner. At the end when he
cries, it is because all his sacrifice pays off.
Life is
never giving up on yourself.
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