Batman

Unusually enough, I felt oddly inspired by the latest Batman movie. I re-watched the two films before it and then watched the final one, and I realized that there was one main message that the movie seemed to convey: It's not always about the malicious things you've done or about the secrets that you tend to keep, it's more about the good things that you have done that define you. Several times during the movies, people questioned who he was and whether the world would truly appreciate Batman if he did not reveal his face. Is it a question of who you are? Or is a question of what you do? And the only answer that solves that question is: "They know exactly who he is. He is the Batman" (commissioner Gordon). I think that as corny and cheesy as that may be, it sends a strong...no...intense new vision about how to forgive and how to look at things in an entirely new light.

I guess, that the only way that I can truly explain it is by using another movie reference. In the Vow, the main girl discovered that her mom had been cheated on by her dad. Unable to understand how she could forgive him, her mom simply answered by saying (well...along the lines of): "I chose to forgive him for everything he had done right as opposed to the one thing he had done wrong." And, although in some ways it may be completely unhealthy to think that way, what I have learned from the Batman and from the Vow is that it is much easier, much less energy consuming and much better for yourself to leave the analytics behind. The details should not matter that much. We should look at things as a whole and weigh out the pro's and con's of a situation. I think that if the pro's outweigh the con's...then happiness is bound to come out of forgiving due to those odds.

The good defines you. The bad does not. Regardless of whether or not your mask will always hide your alter ego, the good that you perform with the mask on should always be enough.