A Man Called Otto Hit Me In The Feels 🥲

Picture this...

It's Saturday night and my wife and I are on the hunt for a movie. She wants something light-hearted, so we look through the comedy section and stumble on a comedy/drama called 'A Man Called Otto' starring Tom Hanks.

"Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around."

I'm already thinking in my head, this doesn't sound too funny.

Four times in this movie he tried to end his life, and every single time I didn't find it that funny.

Then we find out his wife died of cancer, not funny in the slightest.

Fast forward to the end of the movie and he finally ends up dying and instead of laughing, like I would in a comedy, as the credits roll down in front of my eyes, I feel something else rolling down in front of my eyes.

I'm bloody crying.

It's taking me back to a time when I lost my mum to cancer.

It's making me feel so grateful to be alive, have a wife and a daughter to do life with.

It's making me feel the blessing of the fully abled body that I have.

I wanted a drama/comedy but I got a drama tragedy.

Sometimes life gives us what we need in replacement of what we want.

We wanted a laugh but we needed a refreshed perspective of the good in our life and how much we should appreciate what we have (big or small).

It's similar to the bottom of this email, you want to click out of it but you need to start taking them seriously and, most of all, start taking your health seriously.

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