I watched part of this movie yesterday. My mind remembered 2004 and the pain I felt on that day. The movie opens with a family with 3 young boys, going on vacation, and those kids, hit a nerve with me, and I became both angry and sad at the same time. For what was to come.............The kids were creating so much noise, uncontrollable, and noisy, entering their hotel room, opening the mini bar, "Can I have this" My heart felt, selfish kids want want and want. No wonder parents drift apart with such kids, a far cry from the kids say of India or Africa, I doubt they would ever do such. The Tsunami arrived, and again I cried, and yet, these kids stopped wanting. God silenced them hey? It no longer became about them, them, and more them/ They stopped thinking about themselves, and they had to help others, yes a shock to their system.
I sat and thought about my own life here, and how much my kids have drained me, always wanting, and we as parents, finally give in, for peace and quiet, before you know it the Kids have ambushed us, they begin to control us. Our marriages end, and the love is diluted from such utter selfishness. Mothers look and feel bedraggled and the Fathers just accept the dull existence. One or the other finally find love elsewhere, and the marriage finally ends. Yes kids you take responsibility.
And what of God and the children, WANT WANT WANT....
Where did it all begin this selfishness ?Ask any mother that once felt beautiful and full of life, as the life is sapped out of them. What about God? How does God feel?
The kids grow up into Adults, selfish and so it continues.
Until God creates what? A wake up call.
