Izzi: Remember Moses Morales? Tom Verde: Who? Izzi: The Mayan guide I told you about. Tom Verde: From your trip. Izzi: Yeah. The last night I was with him, he told me about his father, who had died. Well Moses wouldn't believe it. Tom Verde: Izzi.. Izzi: [embraces Tom] No, no. Listen, listen. He said that if they dug his father's body up, it would be gone. They planted a seed over his grave. The seed became a tree. Moses said his father became a part of that tree. He grew into the wood, into the bloom. And when a sparrow ate the tree's fruit, his father flew with the birds. He said.. death was his father's road to awe. That's what he called it. The road to awe. Now, I've been trying to write the last chapter and I haven't been able to get that out of my head! Tom Verde: Why are you telling me this? Izzi: I'm not afraid anymore, Tommy. . Darren Aronofsky
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We all have to face the fact that death is inevitable. But it's how you deal with your own mortality that makes the difference between a person who lives their life to the fullest and one who doesn't. Mayan guide Moses Morales responded to his impending death by looking at his life as a whole. He found meaning in even the smallest things, like a seed dying to become a tree, or a sparrow fluttering around the tree.

That's because he focused on the big picture of life, rather than looking at what was before him, or what might happen later. As for Tom Verde, he had gone through something very traumatic and Izzi was trying to help him work through it. Instead, Tom was focused only on the tragic events of his past without acknowledging the huge opportunities still ahead of him.

He was letting himself become paralyzed by what had happened in the past rather than looking forward to the future possibilities open to him. It would be interesting to see if there was a connection between this quote and what happened later in the story when Tom met Moses again in Africa and healed his past trauma with a life-giving tree.

Source: The Fountain

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