What To Do When A Monster Calls

Originally posted November 2017.

A REFLECTION ON THE FILM A MONSTER CALLS

When life gets too real, where can we summon the courage to face these realities? When we cannot reconcile how there can be paradoxical truths in this life, from where can we find the knowledge and wisdom of this world to solve these conundrums?

When death robs the color of our worlds, when people rob us of our dignity, when our halos are broken and our wings folded, where can we learn to fly once again?

Monsters exist in reality. Their mission is to steal us of our sanity, our peace, and our happiness. And there is only one way to compete with these real monsters, and that is to call upon imagined monsters to sojourn with us, to walk beside us, that in our imaginations we may find what is necessary to summon the courage to face reality, to call ourselves to action and to speak the truth: that we have the dignity that others deny us, that we are sometimes our worst enemies, that we don't know whether or not we will continue to exist after those we truly love pass and leave from this earth.

When a monster calls in the witching hours of the darkness of night when your dreams and nightmares blend into paralleled truths, will you have the courage to walk beside them and do what is necessary to heal yourself? ...before it is to late for your hardened heart to die away?


~Michael DeNobile

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