Someone once said “you do not know what you have till it is gone”. This saying is true to most whom have wonderful blessings at their hands and instead choose to push them away. Taking advantage of an opportunity when first given is a lot easier to enjoy now, versus waiting for a second chance and never finding it again. My favorite movie is “Scent of a Woman” a story about an old, stubborn colonel who goes through a self-transformation over Thanksgiving weekend, with the help of a prep school student. It teaches life lessons about true integrity and courage, and where to go you one finds themselves at the crossroads of life.
Al Pacino plays a man, Colonel Frank Slade, who once could see, but is now blind and miserable with his life. He decides to have Thanksgiving weekend in New York City, along with fine dinning, dancing, adventure, and ending his weekend in killing himself. He believes that he will never find love or true happiness because he has wasted away his life messing around with women while in the army. He believes now that he is blind that he cannot continue on with life, but what he does not know is he actually can. He is taught this lesson from a prep school student, who is supposed to be taking care of him at his house. He learns from the young man, Charlie, life can be more only as long as you make it out to be that way.
The movie has influenced me to see right from wrong and see the right path in the cross roads of life, instead of choosing the easy way out. Al Pacino has saved up his money to do something with his life and ends up unhappy. The message is live life to the fullest and not to waste it. Take the opportunity now to enjoy life do not wait for your second chance, because if you do you may end up unhappy.
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