‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ the 1946 movie with Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey. I googled ‘what if I had never been born movie’ …up popped this familiar film, with this Plot Outline: “An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.” Clarence is that Angel, he says, “Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?”
for me to watch the movie with it’s happy ending, it’s one main story. Will it be 2 stories for my Kids? They might be watching nearly the same one as I, the story where our lives here as a family couldn’t be what they are without the Kids, adopted from China. And perhaps another story where they don’t exist, aren’t around in China, and their Chinese Mothers(&Father&family) don’t exist to see, to touch…leaves an awful hole as the Angel sees it.
here are 3 Kurt Vonnegut quotes, maybe related, before&after:
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”“We’re not too young for love, just too young for about everything there is that goes with love.”
“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.”
and one more Vonnegut quote, future hopeful:
“There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.”
—G, from IAT, with permission
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Oh, Karin.
I can’t add much, my dear.
I’ve been trying to read, and absorb, much of what you’ve written lately.
Love to you, thoughtful one.
I think I liked the idea of developing our wings on the way down. If I waited for wings, I’d never fly or if I gave into my fears.
And I just LOVED the idea of angels being designed along the lines of the Mafia, to have a host of angels who are there, even if we don’t know it or know what is being affected/effected. And they wouldn’t brook any insult, if they were like Mafioso.
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