Rewinding Life

I love movies. So much that when asked to name my "favorite" movie or even a list of my "Top 5" (or what have you), I have difficulty.

But one of them will always be "It's A Wonderful Life". I could go on about the zillion reasons I love it as a cinephile (as much as I hate that term). Right now I'm focusing on the idea of how one person's existence can change another's for good.

(This is not about abortion for chicken and fried dumplings' sake. Too many evil people in this world that you all have spent taxpayer money on to have jailed & killed who could have been abortions just as well.)

So many of us go through our lives feeling like we have never made a difference in anyone else's. We can easily name the people who influenced us, pivoted and even maybe changed our courses. These people were our George Baileys; if not for their existence, our lives would be give screwed.

Yet why is it so hard to believe we are someone else's George Bailey? I mean, that's the entire point of the movie - if you were never born, at least one person would have suffered from you not being present in their life.

This is an interesting concept. Would your family simply reshuffle? Would your school have let one more student in? Obviously you are not hired; how does that switch things up??