Back To The Caves We Go

Groundhogs day pretty much summed up my whole life in a nutshell, were I thought I was trapped in a maze of endless back and forth battles with myself. In my Cave blog I talked about how I had finally looked at myself in the mirror and saw that my character was being judged and I didn’t want to be this childish person that I was once was. Phil had to take a step back himself and look at himself and see what was wrong with his life and how he could make it better. How he could stop distancing himself from the rest of the outside world and become part of it. Just like we had discussed in class he had become an outcast to normal society and has thus made himself a brick wall so that no one could penetrate his defenses.

Groundhog Day turned out to be his look in the mirror just like I had to look in the mirror when I finally began to put childish things away. He had to become comfortable with the people around him, he pulled down his defenses and finally took a step forward in the end when he finally reached that enlightened state of being at peace with everyone. It may have taken him forever to realize it, but just like myself. I didn’t want to change until a certain scenario presented itself and it was that “life defining” moment that everyone talks about. This pretty much ends up back to the Cave and how the turning of the page was when the prisoner was let go and saw the light and saw all the wondrous things that were out there. It was the enlightenment that both Phil and I had, my looking in the mirror and Phil reliving Groundhog Day to have him change everything and become open to society.