INTO THE WILD

We watched a great movie the other night.  Well directed by Sean Penn.  It is a true story about a young man who grew up in an abusive family.  He graduates from college, gives his money for grad school to a charity and goes on an Odyssey, through the American West.  His goal is to go to Alaska and live in the wild.  But on the way he meets, associates with and touches the lives of several people.  He finds in many of them the family he never had, but persists in his dream of going into the wild.  In the end he finds that he had found what he was looking for in the loving relationships he nurtured on his travels.

In life, I think, we all tend to search for something better, often to find that the "better" was right in front of us all the while.  We humans are always planning, planning, and plan we must.  I know why I love dogs.  They live in the moment.  All there all the time.  They don't look back and they don't look too much into the future.  I think that attitude is what the Savior meant when he said, "Take therefore no thought for the morrow ...".  Like in the song, Live Like You Are Dying.  Because in truth we all are.