“Your destiny can be your doom.”
This line is from one of my favorite movies Sleepless in Settle. If you haven’t seen it please direct your attention to TNT or the WE channel because they play this movie at least 3 times a week. So I’m not going to go into what the movie is all about but this particular scene where the above line is said with Meg Ryan and Rosie O’ Donald has always stood out to me. In the scene Meg Ryan’s character (Annie) is going on and on about Tom Hanks’s character (Sam) about how this man (whom she’s never actually met in person) is “the one” and her destiny blah,blah, blah. Rosie O’Donald’s character (Becky) has been bearing witness to Meg turn herself into a basket case the entire movie. Ever so nonchalantly says, “Your destiny can be your doom . Look at me and Rick.” (Rick was her ex-husband and the marriage was a disaster). She doesn’t explain what she meant by her statement, why? Because there’s no explanation needed, it’s simple, its plain, and one of the realest things I’ve ever heard in a movie. Meanwhile, Annie just stands there, like a deer in headlights, as if she can’t understand what was just said to her or maybe she did get it and the truth hit her like a ton of bricks.
Sometimes we get so caught up in a person or an idea that we don’t really see the big picture or we don’t see that person or that idea/thing for what it really is. Sometimes the truth of the matter is that that person/thing we’re chasing is a hot a$$ mess. But we’re so in the moment or focus on making this thing happen we don’t see things for what they really are. We literally can’t see the forest for all the trees; we start to lose perspective on things that actually matter. It’s just like in the movies when the girl is so caught up in chasing her dream guy. She’s driving herself crazy trying to be with this person i.e. changing their whole personality, ditching their friends, etc. Eventually all the hard work pays off and they start dating their ideal mate and guess what? That person is their doom he/she is a total a$$hole and then they start to see the error in their ways. Oh…. I forgot to mention that there’s always that “friend” that pays the back and has been secretly in love with them since Jesus was a little boy. Then they see the “friend” for what they really are (the love of their life) and they fall in love and live happily ever after or something like that. Just like in Something Kind of Wonderful or any Katherine Heigl movie. The point I’m trying to make is sometimes you have to ask yourself are you chasing your destiny or are you chasing waterfalls thinking it’s your destiny? Because if you're not careful the destiny you think you're going after just may very well be your doom.
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