Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By
rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories,
Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they
were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end
be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had
happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness
must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the
clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something,
even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do
understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning
back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to
something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
(Lord of the Rings: The two towers)
That's my favourite movie dialogue ever! I keep remembering it when I
despair looking at all the horrible things that we keep reading about and
seeing around us, and this year had its sizeable quota too! I am particularly pained by
the horrible acts of violence on children and women. And at this time of the
year when one reflects on what went by, I am fighting the temptation to give up
hope and accept things but to take courage and fight in whatever ways we can!
Fight by giving our precious time to support a cause that takes the evil
head-on even if everybody else says it is doomed to fail. Fight by
standing for what we believe is just in whatever ways we can. Fight by
practising what we want the world to be at our own home. Fight by bringing up our
children to be the change makers. Fight by not accepting 'What can I do?
Because YOU and ME make the world and we can together make a change! And we
need to, because 'There's some good in this world and it's worth fighting for'!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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