"Tests are benefits from God, for which we should thank him. Grief and sorrow do not come to us by chance, they are sent to us by Divine Mercy for our own perfecting", Abdu'l-Bahá. Crisis and challenges come to all of us and I think, in light of the quotation above, it is so important to see them as opportunities for growth that we should be thankful for. However, this is so hard when something happens to us that causes so much pain.
I wrote todays script a few months ago and decided to work on it a little as an entry for today. I guess what I wanted to show was that when we are in pain we need need to feel it. There is almost no use in bottling up our feelings because I have found that the more one does this that the more the pain intensifies. I think so often people, myself included, have a tendency to just try to forget or move past pain without ever processing it. There was something that happened to me a few years ago and because it caused so much pain I didn't want to look directly at it or myself. In time it just became more and more distorted in my head and I ended up having a very selective memory about what had happened. But, anyway, this story is one that focuses on this tendency in people to block out all emotion and the need sometimes for someone to guide us in the right direction so that we can process and learn.
I wanted to make this in February on a the Holkham nature reserve in Norfolk. It so nearly got made but, in many ways, I am glad it was not made then because I was not ready for it yet. This version is a second draft of sorts and I am still not happy enough with it to say that I want it to be my next short film that I make. The Band, from day 3, will be the next one I make for sure because I need something fun and uplifting right now. The Bear and the Beach is certainly something I really want to make though and I will. I think I myself need more time to grow, process and learn before I can make the best version of this film possible.
This post is technically from last night and I did miss another day. So this means I need to write two more scripts today and then two more days of two scripts a day to stay on track.
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