Are You Living on an Island of Fear?
by Dave Cole
In the movie, "The
Castaway", Tom Hanks played the role of a FedEx delivery man. His job
was to fly all over the world making sure that the packages were
delivered on time.
One fateful trip
found his cargo plane flying through a nasty storm somewhere in the
middle of the South Pacific Ocean. The plane crashed near a tiny,
deserted island. The only survivor was Hanks.
Upon awakening the
next day, Hanks found himself all alone. Alone with nothing except
the clothes on his back.
So picture this:
no matches, no tools, no food, no shelter, no communications, only 1
small flashlight along with a few packages containing some useless items
that had washed up on shore.
He learned to
survive a meager existence sleeping in a small dark cave. His food came
from coconuts and the few fish he managed to catch.
Tom Hanks was
captured and held prisoner on an island with seemingly no hope of ever
escaping. Every day the island dictated to him how he was to live.
He was trapped on
that island because he saw no way of escape.
His fears of
losing what small sense of security the island provided, as despicable
as it was, prevented him from trying to escape to a better life. A life
he knew existed, but now only dreamed about.
Looking out over
the vast expanse of the ocean, he constantly thought about that better
life. But those thoughts soon returned to seeing the opposition and
competition that prevented him from returning to what was rightfully
his.
4 long years
later, Tom Hanks made a decision. He had grown sick and tired of having
a nothing life. It was either die a nobody, going no place, on a nowhere
island, continuing to live a struggling and pitiful hand to mouth
existence, or......die trying to escape to a real life.
The Pacific Ocean
was the obstacle. His opponent was his own fears of overcoming that
obstacle.
He made a plan to
escape. The day arrived and Hanks set sail aboard a make shift,
rinky-dink raft of logs tied together with tree bark and video tape.
He met every
adversity the South Pacific could throw at him. It wasn't easy, but
finally, the rescue came.
The movie
portrayed a very intense drama. An analogy of what life is like for many
people. Thousands of folks every day feel trapped in a nowhere life.
They feel like their life is being wasted, like they are going nowhere,
on a nowhere island with little hope of escape.
Every day these
people trudge off to a boring and hopeless job that offers only an
existence but no real sense of satisfaction in life as accomplishing
anything.
These people know
there is a better life out there, a life they so desire, yet it seems so
far away. They are trapped on their own island of despair.
Held there, not by
the island itself, but by their own fears of not being able to overcome
the adversity and opposition that lies between them and their dreams.
A few do escape
from that island. They are the ones who finally become sick and tired of
living a wasted life, they are the ones who overcome the fear inside.
They start out
from their island, not really knowing if they will make it or not. But
they look at that sea of difficulties square in the eye and say, in the
unforgettable words of Admiral
David Farragut,
"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."
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