About Today...

I want to start off by saying that I love this movie. I rented it thinking it was going to be a good action movie seeing as it's about UFC fighting and was a great action movie with lots of amazing fight scenes and guys getting the crap kicked out of them, but it was so much more than that. As you can see by this video that this wasn't your typical fighting/action movie where the underdog comes in and wins everything and gets the girl... that is exactly what happens but with a completely different and deeper message. These two men fighting are brothers who have been distant for many years and not spoken, with bitterness and anger they go into the championship match of this Ultimate Fighting tournament. The dominant fighter continues to apologize to his brother for abandoning him many years ago, but the only thing that brings this troubled fighter to peace is hearing his brother say, "I love you Tommy", and the brother taps. The tap is like the brother saying I forgive you. So you can watch this movie and come out of it thinking that it is a great fighting movie with some intense scenes and thats great because it is true. Or you can be like me, knowing this was a great action movie but recognizing it has a greater message than any fight scene can give; the message of love and forgiveness between two brothers.

Mother Teresa

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.”
~Mother Teresa


" We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."- Mother Teresa


"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."- Mother Teresa

"Spread love everywhere you go, let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - Mother Teresa

God and Art

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” ~Andre Gide

" Winning or Losing, Living or Dying"

I can remember sitting in our dressing room in high school before a football game and we would have this speech replaying over and over. I am not a huge fan of Al Pacino, I won't deny that he is a classic actor, however, I think he is amazing while giving this speech to his football team during half time when they are losing. Football isn't quite as big as it is in the States as he's comparing playing football to how they live thier lives. But, I do agree with this speech that if you give up in something like a football game, whats gonna stop you from giving up in life? That sounds pretty deep and that wasn't really what was a going for, nonetheless it is a great video and I do believe it can pertain to real life.

Father and Son

 

I searched impacting images on the web and this was one of photos that came up. It is a photograph of a father kneeling with his hand on his sons name in memory of him because he died in the 9/11 attack on the twin towers. I think this image speaks volumes. An elderly man, dressed nicely in a suit, among busy New York City this man is on his knees remembering his lost son. I realize it was possibly planned, but nonetheless it is a powerful picture.