powerful.
inspire.
interesting.
Why?
On so many levels. I love to hear people comments throughout the movie. I love to feel my own reactions. To watch the movie and be intrigued by a behavioral classed as so strange. But the most unique, precious, and beautiful part of the movie is the simple love shown. From all sign. Form the football coach to Radio and back from Radio to the football coach.
Simple love that is outrageous and life changing.
Simple love knows no bounds.
It is not hinder by how "cool" we think we will look. It is not hinder by how much time we have. It is not hinder by the amount of love that we have inside of us. Because it's not us. It can't be us. It must be God.
We love because He first loved us. We can only begin to love because of His love.
And you see, we see "these people" as we call them.. allude to them.. and define them.. as our outreach, our project someone who needs a friend.
We look at them as someone who needs to be supported, someone who needs love, someone who is weak and needs our strength to build them up.
To all of this I scream it is false.
We are the ones who are defined by society, who are scared to love without limits and without speculation, we are the ones who need a friend. We are those we are to stubborn to let people support us and we have never needed to show the strength other show each day.
I've never seen such strength steam from individuals who are verbally and emotionally beaten by the world around them. I've never seen such a victory over the tricks and emotions mental illness play in the mind of individuals ever day. I've never seen such passionate thinkers and feelers than those are placed into the world of developmental disabilities.
There is something beautiful how smiles. And that when they smile they are real, heartfelt, and genuine. That there smiles can reflect rooted in the depth of there soul.
There is something beautiful about how they feel. Up or down. They feel it. And they feel it hard.
There is something beautiful about how they love. The love without limits.
There is something beautiful about there strength. Continually being mocked by the world and than picking themselves back up.
This is not to discount challenges and at times appropriate ways of acting. This is not to say that together we can work together to control emotions, tendencies and behavior. But to break and bend "normal" a little bit, to live with understand and grace, and to bestow simple love.
It's about time we stop asking them to take lessons from us and we start taking some from them. And let the first lesson be.. that there is no "us" and "them" but all together in one singular word humans.
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