“Blink” and you'll miss it
As
if I haven't written enough about “Blink,” here's one final go.
It's such a good episode, it deserves all this attention, I think. I
want to touch on one more topic.
You
know the saying “Blink and you'll miss it”? Well, as the writers
of Doctor
Who
so often do, they took the concept behind this phrase and literalized
it into plot and characters.
In
the story, if you blink while looking at a Weeping Angel, you will be
taken out of your proper timeline and put into another: wrenched from
your life, your loved ones, your possessions, your ambitions, and
your work. In Billy's case, his life was put back just so far that he
could then see, after opening his eyes from the blink, what he had
missed. He was 40 years away, and could glimpse the life he should
have had.
In
our lives, doesn't think happen? We “blink” and find we've missed
something huge.
We've
stopped paying attention, and children have grown up and we've missed
their childhoods.
We've
looked away, and found a marriage or a friendship has died from lack
of care.
We've
gotten busy, blinked, and suddenly discovered we're too old to have
kids, or to go back to school, or to run a marathon, or to learn how
to dance, or to climb a mountain.
We
blink, and we're on our deathbed, never having repented, though we
meant to, we meant to, we meant to change and live a good life and
love God and others.
But
we blinked.
2 comments:
Well said.
And, on the shorter ends of life, we blink and later realized that we missed hearing what a friend was really asking or needing to hear, that we were so focused on our destination that we ignored the scenery, ...
A good reminder--thanks (again)!
Fred
Thanks, Fred! But the reminder is not mine -- it's Moffat's.
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