Food for Thought: Titanic

When Titanic first came out it was 1997. I was 12 years old and I went to see the 3.5 hour movie in the theater 4 times.

4 separate times.

I went with my best friends, my mom, another set of friends, and I dragged my best guy friend at the time to see it with me. Little did I or anyone else know at the time that this movie would still tug at my heartstrings and stay with you almost 20 years later.

I am sitting at work listening to the Hans Zimmer radio on Pandora and the film score for Titanic comes up. I get nostalgic, happy, sad and excited for Titanic all over again. This was the biggest movie of its time and some say today it still is. Every guy wanted to be Jack. Every girl wanted to be Rose. Everyone wanted the passion and the love Jack and Rose had for a few days. It doesn't matter what happened at the end. Everyone had their own version of "what if Jack survived?"

I knew I did. I imagined that Jack was simply sleeping and when Rose made it to the Carpathia she walked to the far end of the ship and Jack was there waiting for her to begin their life together, away from the pressure that money brought. But even though Jack died, the ending wasn't tragic. Rose lived her life in every way possible. She did everything she wanted to do no matter what anyone said. She lived life in the 20s, 30s, 40s that women try and live now. Being much older than my mere 12 year old self, I understand what it means to live life to the fullest and understand why Jack wanted Rose to live.

If you don't live your life, you miss out - on everything.

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