I just watched Patch Adams today for the first time (yeah I know how have I not seen it before). I was really blown away by everything that it stood for because it confronted me with such an underlying truth. Patch Adams, as well as several other films are capable of reaching our souls because they speak to the very depth of our humanity, that agape, that self-actualization, the human spirit, or whatever you want to call it. But it’s there.
That insatiable truth that permeates every lie we’ve ever conformed to. It’s that part at the very core of ourselves that knows truth better then we want to believe. That pounding of your heart that knows when you see evil, even though you’ve been told that it’s good, or viceversa.
I think all people have that truth inside of us, just as Patch Adams, and so many other amazing people have. I think the main difference between most people and those others is that they choose to listen to it. They choose to say screw the rules, screw conformity, screw the way its always been done because in the depth of my heart I know this is wrong and it can and will be better.
It’s not the people who had great thoughts that were able to make our world a better place, but the people who listened to them and had courage to follow through.
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