May the force be with you...you'll need it

Stumbled across a video clip on milkandcookies.com that is interesting. It refers to several video clips (derived from the original one) hosted on ebaumsworld.com that show a kid acting out some cool starwars moves.

There is a whole story about this kid and how the video surfaced. Here I am only giving my views on this whole incident, not trying in anyway to ridicule the kid or any other person involved.

I think the video and all that surround it serves as a very good example of how important it is with honesty and integrity.

We have all been fascinated by the thought of becoming heroes - powerfull, important, different. A means of escaping, a means of acting out. In this video we see a 15yr old kid doing exactly that. Of course it looks funny, maybe even ridiculous, seeing this kid 'fighting' on screen.

Adding the 'special effects' (done by someone else afterwards) just makes it even more laughable one would think, but it can also be seen as adding seriousness to the performance.

I have to admit that I did laugh while seeing these video clips, but at the same time I wanted to know how this kids life was - if he was an outsider, with problems, with a need to escape from a harsh reality, or a way of releasing tensions ,or being creative. There are a multitude of alternatives that belong more to the private realm of this kid than on the public arena of the internet.

What is positive is that one guy was kind enough to send the kid an ipod which people had donated money for in an act of appreciation and kindness.

People like that are in my eyes extremely important. Without them we would be left with only hard feelings, dismay and contempt.