Cast Away

"Kelly had to let me go .... .... I knew I had lost her then (4 yrs back) because I was never going to get off that Island. I was going to die there. Totally alone. I was sick, scared, injured. The only choice I had - the only thing I CONTROLLED - was when, and how, and where it was going to happen... So... I made a rope... and went up to the summit (a cliff, with a single tree at it's very edge) to hang myself. I had to test it you know...of course, you know me... (He tests it by tying a heavy log to the rope and letting it hang by the tree) AND THE WEIGHT... OF THE LOG... SNAPPED... THE LIMB OF THE TREE.... So I-I--I couldn't even kill my self the way I wanted to. I.. HAD.. POWER.. OVER.. NOTHING. .... .... .... That's when this feeling came over me - like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, I had to stay alive. Somehow... I had to keep breathing... Even though there was no reason to hope... And all my logic said that I would never see this place (his home) again. So thats what I did... I stayed alive. I kept breathing... And one day that logic was proved all wrong, because the tide came in and gave me a sail. And now here I am. Back in Memphis. Talking to you. I have ice in my Glass...!!! (looks at the Ice in his glass with wonder) And I have lost her all over again... I am so sad that I dont have Kelly. but I am so grateful that she was not with me on that island. And I know what I have to do now... I have to keep breathing... Because TOWORROW THE SUN WILL RISE...Who knows what the Tide could bring..." (And so he lived on...) I have to keep breathing... For tomorrow the Sun will rise. who knows what the tide would bring?