the choice is yours

Action films have always been my favorite, especially those of the superhero type. Superman is definitely at the top of the list. But I think my next favorite is the Silver Surfer form the Fantastic Four. Yeah, sure he starts the film out as a really bad dude, but toward the end of the film he sacrifices his life for a world he never knew. The moral being taught in the film was that people have a choice to be bad or good. Most of us will chose to be bad and good at some point in our life, depending on the circumstances. However, I think what matters, is at what point in our life do we chose to do right and wrong. Kids are amazing, but often times they will chose the bad. It is kind of expected due to their immaturity. Their thoughts are of themselves – it is a very natural response to having all their needs taken care of by their parents. But as they get older (depending on the extremity of their home environment) they start to make better choices – what I would call making the right decision. Once they enter adulthood they are perfecting the process of thinking of other people before themselves. But there are those kids that are not taken care of as infants. They have a harder time differentiating good from bad, right from wrong. They are in self preservation mode through their teenage to adult years. Many of the decisions they make are due to being hurt by others and in turn their decisions hurt others. This is where the silver Surfer found himself. A cosmic force hurt his planet and held someone he loved for ransom. Because of this, the Silver Surfer spent many years pulverizing other planets so the cosmic force could gain power. Though the Silver Surfer was killing other beings (billions of them) he felt he had no choice if he was to see his loved one again. Some may think of this as a heroic act on his part. But I saw it as one who reverted to self preservation mode. His thoughts of all the beings he would kill did not out-weigh his desire to not live alone for the greater good. In fact he did not see it this way. He only saw his need which was directly related to the safety of his loved one. As the Silver surfer comes into contact with humans he starts to learn about sacrifice for the greater good, for this is what he saw. The team of the fantastic four, thought they had struggles they focus was to save a life that they knew was trying to kill them. Yes, it is a story, for how many of us would really help the enemy. Fortunately, they loosely exhibited the better aspects of human nature – compassion for the enemy. In the end the Silver Surfer realizes he is in control of what he does, whether is for good or bad. He gave up his life to destroy the “destroyer”, for the sake of saving all human existence at the loss of his own. The moral to my little blog: no matter what pressure is applied to your life, you always have the choice to do bad or good. Hopefully it is the later. Signing off…Kodiak.