Have you ever wanted to 'check out' of your current life?
To become anonymous and start over?
I can almost see the benefits, and also the problems it would cause.
Checking out and becoming a hermit, becoming someone else, means you wouldn't or couldn't have contact with your family, or things familiar. But then you'd have your peace and quiet, with no questions about things you'd rather not discuss. Not everyone has a major crisis point in their life to justify remaking themselves.
That's just what a man did. He tried to commit suicide, but it failed; a priest found him and he started life over, calling himself Sunday. He lived on a boat, no TV or radio, just fishing, reading good books. He met a famous woman who was trying to commit suicide as well, and he told her that she could commit to suicide, go back to her old life, or option 3: recreate herself under an assumed name, and never go back to her old life again. Several different things happen; of course, it's easy to assume a new life when one has money.
But when it comes down to it, can we really make ourselves into someone new???
Here's the quote that moved me:
"All hearts have one request. One simple need.
One undeniable fear.
To be known.
You can stamp it out. Numb it and close the door. But eventually the needs of the heart will tear the door off the hinges. No prison ever built could house it. Those of us who think we can are lying to ourselves. And those next to us.
Hope never dies."
That's so true - hope never dies. We all keep hope, even when we deny it. I took one of those silly online tests that ""predict the future"". I laughed because my three top things for this year: World Trip. True Love. Athletic Body. Yeah, yeah, I hear you snickering too. :)
But that doesn't mean that those could be the hopes I hold deep in my heart.
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