127 hours...

I don't usually blog about emotional topics, but my roommate and I watched 127 hours last night, and it really got me thinking. We've all heard the story about the mountain climber who was hiking in Utah and got his arm stuck between a boulder. He was stuck for 127 hours and eventually cut his own arm off with a cheap dull pocket knife in order to survive. But what I liked about the movie was that, Erin (the mountain climber) realized his whole life had been leading up to the moment when his arm would be stuck. He had not been living his life the way he knew he should. He didn't have much contact with his family, he missed his own sisters wedding, he broke up with his girlfriend because of his own selfishness, and he had no true friends. So when he decided to mountain climb alone in Utah, no one knew where he had gone. He probably thought he was going to die, but he said if he ever got out alive, his life would be different. I don't want to go through a drastic life threatening experience to make me realize how I should live. We should all live like Erin, and treat everyday like a gift, because life goes by too fast to take it for granted.