Supplemental Entry: The Wall

I’m sitting in front of the TV working away on the laptop again. No new NetFlix DVDs today. The Wall is on VH1 Classic (my favorite TV channel, even if they do edit the movie). It’s hard to feel sorry for myself with whatever problems I have when I see the sad life of our poor protagonist Pink - dad died in the war when he was so young, no father figure, smothering mom, abused by the schoolmaster, wife cheating on him, severe mental illness, smashing up his guitars, filled with hate, isolated, alienated.

We all have our issues. I once heard that people seems normal until you get to know them. That sounds about right. I’m a little afraid to get to know people who I really look up to for fear that I’ll be disappointed in some way. That groupie thought Pink was really cool until he freaked out and smashed everything in sight when she came on to him.

I like to think that the message with the children in the epilogue “outside the wall” is that we can all reboot and start again with our lost childhood innocence. For me that comes from being a parent, and cleaning up my act in so many ways because of my kids being around.
I thank God for my blessings.

After all it's not easy,
Banging your heart against some mad bugger's
wall.