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04/28/2003 Archived Entry: "Cast Away"

WILSON!: Sorry about the light blogging today. I reserve Monday and Tuesday for myself. ESR isn't my life after all. I read and wrote and decided to watch a DVD that came in the mail today. It's one of my favourites, Cast Away, starring Tom Hanks.

It's a movie that should have ended two minutes earlier than it did -- just before Bettina Peterson (Lari White) rolls up in her pick-up truck to tell Chuck Noland (Hanks) where the highways lead -- but other than that is truly a marvel. It influenced in ways I didn't know back when it came out in 2000. While I wasn't the frenetic clockwatcher that Noland was, I loved keeping busy. If I could do something faster, I used the extra time to do something else. In the end, my life was one giant to-do list.

I began to break that cycle a little over a year ago. I started cutting things out of my life that I didn't need to be doing and I started to spend more of that time on things that really matter. It's not like being on an island in the south Pacific, but it's nice that I smell the roses every now and then. There are more important things than working yourself to death.

At any rate, I bought the 2 disc collectors set so I'm looking forward to all the extras, including a featurette on Wilson and another on how to survive if you find yourself in Chuck Noland's predicament.

Chuck: We live and we die by the clock, that's all we have.

I'm glad he learned he was wrong....