Patch Adams
is a 1998 true-to-life movie of a Doctor who attempted to cure patients with
laughter, based on his natural persona, wit and mixing equal doses of
scatological humor and pathos. Hunter “Patch” Adams , played by Robin Williams,
discovers the hope of his calling “to help people” after rising from the
darkest point of his life. He discovers the best way to heal and help a person
who is sick is to first treat the patient as a human being prior to addressing
the illness. Determined to provide emotional and spiritual relief as well as
medicine, Patch defy the norm of medicine and clowns around for his patients,
getting to know them personally.
After watching a movie, things, which was never been brought up to my mind before, came etching, bothering and even pestering me during the next few days, between breaks or even when I idle myself in the corner. And there I thought, If we live in fear will that make us a less of a person? Will that make us inhuman? They say fear makes you less of the person you really want to be. If Fear will be erased in this world, what kind of person you think you'll be? What are the things you'll probably do without fear?I think it’s not life alone that people are afraid of, it’s the consequences on every action they do. It’s what they are terrified about.
A lot of people may think that being tough and surpassing the many hurdles of trials is what life is all about. It’s all about facing your fears. It’s all about who’s the fittest that’ll prevail the strongest. I think that is where everyone is having the wrong perception about. It’s not the person with guns and weapons in life that are the toughest, it’s the people who manage to live and move on with a smile creeping up on their face after a long hardship of battle. Those people deserve a round of applause more than anyone out there.
People who are genuinely and effortlessly funny have bigger and heavier problems at hand but I admire them because, despite having the many reasons to give up in life, they chose to face the world with a mask whose smile and channel it into something positive and beautiful.
To them, there’s no assurance that the "battles" you face in life won't change you. They will leave scars, but you will grow so much as a person because of them. Whatever life hands you, it's either a blessing or a lesson and that it’s up to us on how we see it in a different light and transcend it into something positive and beautiful. So to the people out there who always complain about life, you do that not because Life sucks as a whole; you do such thing because it’s exactly the way you make it seem and perceive them to be—horrible and miserable.
No matter how much you try to convince yourself, at the end of the night, when you face your bed that is empty, you may find it hard to believe or even question it’s morality but until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You must find the strength to open the wounds and etched it, Stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them. Don’t deny the pain, accept it and own up to it. Let yourself, drown in your tears. Embrace it. Soon enough, You will wake up and smile and that is what the movie taught me through because it might hurt now but it will not always hurt forever unless you give them the power to do so.
This is my reflection paper for NCM 105. I thought I should share it here.
After watching a movie, things, which was never been brought up to my mind before, came etching, bothering and even pestering me during the next few days, between breaks or even when I idle myself in the corner. And there I thought, If we live in fear will that make us a less of a person? Will that make us inhuman? They say fear makes you less of the person you really want to be. If Fear will be erased in this world, what kind of person you think you'll be? What are the things you'll probably do without fear?I think it’s not life alone that people are afraid of, it’s the consequences on every action they do. It’s what they are terrified about.
A lot of people may think that being tough and surpassing the many hurdles of trials is what life is all about. It’s all about facing your fears. It’s all about who’s the fittest that’ll prevail the strongest. I think that is where everyone is having the wrong perception about. It’s not the person with guns and weapons in life that are the toughest, it’s the people who manage to live and move on with a smile creeping up on their face after a long hardship of battle. Those people deserve a round of applause more than anyone out there.
People who are genuinely and effortlessly funny have bigger and heavier problems at hand but I admire them because, despite having the many reasons to give up in life, they chose to face the world with a mask whose smile and channel it into something positive and beautiful.
To them, there’s no assurance that the "battles" you face in life won't change you. They will leave scars, but you will grow so much as a person because of them. Whatever life hands you, it's either a blessing or a lesson and that it’s up to us on how we see it in a different light and transcend it into something positive and beautiful. So to the people out there who always complain about life, you do that not because Life sucks as a whole; you do such thing because it’s exactly the way you make it seem and perceive them to be—horrible and miserable.
No matter how much you try to convince yourself, at the end of the night, when you face your bed that is empty, you may find it hard to believe or even question it’s morality but until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You must find the strength to open the wounds and etched it, Stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them. Don’t deny the pain, accept it and own up to it. Let yourself, drown in your tears. Embrace it. Soon enough, You will wake up and smile and that is what the movie taught me through because it might hurt now but it will not always hurt forever unless you give them the power to do so.
This is my reflection paper for NCM 105. I thought I should share it here.
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