"Freedom Writers"

This was the movie we were watching today during our creative writing class. I enjoyed it immensely for a number of reasons.
First, I saw how poverty and an overdose of suffering can blind us and make us see everything through the glasses of hatred. You find it hard to blame anyone for the miseries of life. Those people have some group to blame for all their plight. They think the way of pain is the only path in life. You believe nobody cares. So you stop caring for anybody. You believe others cause you all the pain in your life. So you want to cause others as much pain as you can. You wonder how some people say, "People cannot hurt you without your choice." In the middle of all of this misery even the word "choice" doesn't come to your mind.
The second thing I learnt is how the very people that we hate and blame can help us find the hope we yearn for. Those "bad" guys come into our lives without any invitation and change our world upside down. At the beginning we hate them even more for doing so, for introducing these new, their type of thing, into our lives. Gradually, when we start to heal, we thank them for it.
The third thing is that these people who help us to change don't bring anything new into our hearts. They just make us see our goodness that was buried under the mess of our former destructive life. They make us believe in ourselves. They tell and show us how good we are. They make us realize the goodness in us is more lethal in destroying our bad life more than the guns can destroy lives. Though ordinary, we carry something extraordinary in our being. Though "useless", we discover that we are infinitely valuable. Though our external look be dusty, we find diamond within us.
It is amazing for me how the person who help us change comes in all kinds of colour, size and form. Thank God for this movie and for my students with whom I shared.
Bye for now.
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