ROCKY BALBOA
I have always been a great fan of "Rocky Movies".....you don't need to think a lot....but it gets your blood pumping, and your heart beating,....melting....just feeling! It's one simple man, perhaps even below average, who rose against the odds and gets to say those great lines that just gets you where it matters...like I said....you don't think a lot...but you feel the movie and it really gets to you.
Yesterday, as I was watching my Lizzie running in the playground after school, I was approached by another parent...and we got into a conversation about life....Like my clinic and drug store, a fire burned down his first business venture and like me, he was never totally able to recover financially. We also talked about my wife's past illness, and about our present financial woes. He said he would be okay one moment, then just suddenly get blindsided by typhoon "Ondoy" and other forms of typhoon. I related my problems with dirty politics intervening with my work and other storms as well...he said, sometimes he would ask God, "why?".....but we both agreed, that every time we get knocked down, we get back up, we shake it off, and continue to move and hope...for ourselves and for our family.
Then later that day...I chanced upon my son Niccolo, watching "Rocky Balboa" or "Rocky 6", the last installment, or the latest installment...you can never tell with Sly.....Niccolo has also become a fan of Rocky, having seen all of the 6 films.....I, unabashedly, admitted to him that I cried when I first saw this latest installment....and still gets teary-eyed each time I watch it. I am most affected by the scenes with his kid, and every time Rocky remembers his dead wife Adrian....Then I was struck by a particular scene...it was very reminiscent of what I and the other parent just talked about......
In this scene Rocky is talking to his son...and he says....this is a direct quote, so pardon the slang, because well, you know how Rocky talks....."The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place.....and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me, or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit...it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth....but you gotta be willing to take the hits and not be pointing fingers, saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that, and that ain't you....you're better than that!"
There's a heap of brilliance in this simple champion with the big heart.
Truly, this is what life is all about....there will always be struggles....but our life should not be about the struggles....it should be about our willingness to face those struggles, to stand up every time we stumble,......and continue to fight...not just for ourselves...but for the people we love, the people who mean everything to us......It should also be about our FAITH, and our belief in a loving God who will never let us down.
Rocky and I have another thing in common....the very last scene in the film has Rocky visiting his wife Adrian in the cemetery and he ends the film with these words....."I could never have done anything without you. We did it Adrian!"...then he walks away!
I, too, am nothing without my own Adrian....my wife Dinah.
I have always been a great fan of "Rocky Movies".....you don't need to think a lot....but it gets your blood pumping, and your heart beating,....melting....just feeling! It's one simple man, perhaps even below average, who rose against the odds and gets to say those great lines that just gets you where it matters...like I said....you don't think a lot...but you feel the movie and it really gets to you.
Yesterday, as I was watching my Lizzie running in the playground after school, I was approached by another parent...and we got into a conversation about life....Like my clinic and drug store, a fire burned down his first business venture and like me, he was never totally able to recover financially. We also talked about my wife's past illness, and about our present financial woes. He said he would be okay one moment, then just suddenly get blindsided by typhoon "Ondoy" and other forms of typhoon. I related my problems with dirty politics intervening with my work and other storms as well...he said, sometimes he would ask God, "why?".....but we both agreed, that every time we get knocked down, we get back up, we shake it off, and continue to move and hope...for ourselves and for our family.
Then later that day...I chanced upon my son Niccolo, watching "Rocky Balboa" or "Rocky 6", the last installment, or the latest installment...you can never tell with Sly.....Niccolo has also become a fan of Rocky, having seen all of the 6 films.....I, unabashedly, admitted to him that I cried when I first saw this latest installment....and still gets teary-eyed each time I watch it. I am most affected by the scenes with his kid, and every time Rocky remembers his dead wife Adrian....Then I was struck by a particular scene...it was very reminiscent of what I and the other parent just talked about......
In this scene Rocky is talking to his son...and he says....this is a direct quote, so pardon the slang, because well, you know how Rocky talks....."The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place.....and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently, if you let it. You, me, or nobody, is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit...it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth....but you gotta be willing to take the hits and not be pointing fingers, saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that, and that ain't you....you're better than that!"
There's a heap of brilliance in this simple champion with the big heart.
Truly, this is what life is all about....there will always be struggles....but our life should not be about the struggles....it should be about our willingness to face those struggles, to stand up every time we stumble,......and continue to fight...not just for ourselves...but for the people we love, the people who mean everything to us......It should also be about our FAITH, and our belief in a loving God who will never let us down.
Rocky and I have another thing in common....the very last scene in the film has Rocky visiting his wife Adrian in the cemetery and he ends the film with these words....."I could never have done anything without you. We did it Adrian!"...then he walks away!
I, too, am nothing without my own Adrian....my wife Dinah.
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