"Nobody forgets the truth. They only get better at lying." - quote from the movie Revolutionary Road. Can't tell you why exactly, but this quote struck me while we were watching the movie, enough so that I wrote it down. We pretend, we tell ourselves what we want to hear, we try to drown it out with busyness, we lie over and over again to ourselves, but no matter what we know the truth. We get better at pretending it doesn't bother us when we go the opposite direction of the truth, but it is only pretending. Good reminder why I need people who will remind me of the truth when I am lying to myself.
Can't say this movie was exactly an uplifting movie or even one I would recommend, but besides the quote above, for me it also painted a good picture of what happens when we settle. We are the most alive when we chase the dreams we have been given. When we start settling for the money, the known over the challenges of the unknown, start settling for the "happy, American dream", being content being just like everyone else - have we just gotten better at lying? Sometimes those dreams look outrageous, maybe even a little foolish to others, but what really is the draw of looking exactly like everyone else? In the movie, the death of dreaming, the given up the passion of what could be, finally paid a high price in the end. The only person willing to speak the truth was also the one who was in a mental institution, the rest were content living the lies they told themselves. Wonder if that is why when we are willing to speak the truth that sometimes people look at us like we are crazy?
As a church I wonder what God-sized dreams we are giving up on just to settle for looking like everyone else? Are we only getting better at lying?
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