I have chosen Robert Frost as my inspiration for my blog...and sometimes I do have to remind myself why exactly and nobody else. Why him...why are his words that evoke in his simplicity so much more then a thousands words. After all I am someone who has many favorite authors and poets. In many languages and it is hard to explain to someone else why his words will stand out when I am out here...well it perhaps that they are still able to take me by surprise how they never ever will grow old. That most of the words that he has been weaving together still tell a universal story for all...
Yesterday it happened again that he was with me and that while we were watching a Netflix movie. P picks out what we watch in order to try to wrap up our days that have rather become a monotonous repetion of actions. It are sometimes these movies that still help me to see things in perspective and let me go to bed feeling a bit more rooted. Last night we watched 'Sergio'. It is the story about the UN ambessador Sergio Vieira de Mello. The name did ring a bell because I did kind of remembered how Koffi Anon read once out loud a number of names of people who had died in a major of bombing in Iraq. It was one of the key moments in UN diplomacy. It was a nano second that the name had entered my mind..but then I had left my memory. Yesterday that name came back to life.
No, I am not going to review it. The critics are not that kind about it but I still think that the story it deep down carries will never grow old. It is nothing new that people who strongely believe in something and try very hard against the odds to change something do not live without a risk. I have never know Sergio personal..the only thing that I think is that people like him are the oxygen of the world we so desperatedly need. It does not turn them into saints. Yes, even he had a dark side. Personal was his family life a total mess and they do show that only in glimpses in the movie but then we do not need a lot to see in order to get the picture.
What made me suddenly so intensely love the moment of watching this movie was when the leading actress, the beautiful Ana de Armas, who plays the woman Sergio falls in love with suddenly quotes Frost and she does it at the perfect moment. It is that moment that is so magical in certain situations because it are those oneliners that wrap up everything. Their impact are huge and have the power to drag us further into a story that images wish to tell us. They also go beyond and they can even be transfered into the life we face and they tell our own story. Last night the character of Carolina Larriara used words by Frost that made me shiver and warm at the same time. It is the last line of the poem you will find here below.
Yes, the world is seeking answers and is so lost. Directions are not very clear and many of us doubt that we are even willing to pick even up only parts of our life once we are granted a bit more freedom to move. Yes, I love more than ever to look at certain art, listen to certain music or read a book because after all they tell stories that have been written mostly by people that were rooted into a certain time and era that also had a message that never ever will grow old.
So for now I will leave it there and end with the poem by Frost:
Escapist - Never
He is no fugitive– escaped, escaping.
No one has seen him stumble looking back.
His fear is not behind him but beside him
On either hand to make his course perhaps
A crooked straightness yet no less a straightness.
He runs face forward. He is a pursuer.
He is a seeker who in his turn seeks
Another still, lost far into the distance.
Any who seek him seek in him the seeker.
His life is a pursuit of a pursuit forever.
It is the future that creates his present.
All is an interminable chain of longing
by Robert Frost
