There's a little Forrest Gump in all of us

Rating: Null/10 (25 June 2003)

After a bout of depression I indulged in a moment of quiet self-reflection, and I remembered how Forrest Gump ran across the United States and simply rationalizes the trend he set: "I just felt like running." Some things are best done and for reasons we don't know why and I think a simpleton personality like Forrest's is something adults overlook and take for granted.
He represents a symbol of how losing self-consciousness is often the road to happiness and also that living is of just doing and not questioning "why?" all the time. Of course, it would be near impossible for the resume of events to occur in the life of one man, but the message reaches to everyone who got into decisions attributed to pure innocence and good heartedness and came out triumphant. Reminder that there's a little of Forrest in all of us- a balancer of the often-serious life society dictates the selfish messages of "survival of the fittest". Good messages to anyone who needs a little boost to a bad day.