I have always been a huge fan of Spiderman. Andrew Garfield's spidey wasn't well-received, but to be honest, I loved it then, I love it still. There's this specific quote Gwen Stacy gives as a graduation farewell speech. I felt it was pretty beautiful probably because it had the finest background score from Hans Zimmer. Even with that, I still it's wonderful to read and it's quite something to wonder about. So here it is.
" It's easy to feel hopeful on a beautiful day like today, but there will be dark days ahead of us, too. There will be days when you feel alone, and that is when hope is needed most. No matter how buried it gets or how lost you feel, you must promise me that you will hold onto hope. Keep it alive. We have to be greater than what we suffer. As we look around here today, at all the people who helped make us who we are, but we will carry a piece of each other into everything that we do next, to remind us of who we are and who we are meant to be. What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever. What makes it precious is that it ends. I know that now more than ever. And I say it today of all days, to remind us that time is luck. So, don't waste it living someone else's life. Make yours count for something; fight for what matters to you no matter what. Cuz even if we fall short, what better way is there to live? " - The Amazing Spider-Man 2
I won't dwell into the context and the placement of this sermon much. With time, I have grown a little mindful of the distinction between the nature of happiness and the dark. Like I discussed in one of my episode of the podcast, It easy to lose faith when things are dark and gloomy. But the fact is there's going to be this endless cycle of things changing for good or worse. There are moments of delight, there are moments of drought. I have been fascinated by our response to both. That's something I spoke in some detail in the podcast episode. Coming back to the quote, Its the dark days when we need hope the most. And I think I am gonna put a pretty simple yet compelling argument alright. So humor me here, When you are surrounded by the darkness and provided you like any other normal human don't wish to dwell there, what would be easy to do - Loose hope? Or Hold on to hope? The easiest thing you could do is lose hope, complacency is bliss isn't it. But its when things are bad, you have nothing to lose. And I think that serves as the best backdrop to 'HOPE'. Even if you fall short there, what more could happen? How bad things could get ? So I think to be hopeful in moments when you have nothing to lose, that's the best thing one could do for oneself. The next important thing is 'Belief'. Now I have been a person who pursued things(quite erratically and impulsively I might add) I believed in. Now if I put it that way, maybe my beliefs have gotten the best of me. But I honestly didn't mind it then, I don't mind it now. It is about fighting for what you believe in (of course having my moral compass in place). Sometimes I questioned I faith, I did. I struggled with drawing a line between being hopeful and being delusional. But again I question myself, who's to draw the line. The very logic behind the passion would be put to question if was to play it being cautious. I guess I have made some terrible mistakes following my impulses, but I seemed to have owned those. I don't see any other way things would have played out, more perfectly. I am at peace with where I am. I am peace with people I love. Because even if things didn't work out the way I thought they would, I am glad I walked the path. I did fall short, but to quote Gwen Stacy "What better way is there to live?" I know it all seems plain hypothetical bullshit. But again, what's the loss really in giving it a try?
