We went to Cinema Pub. I knew the girls would like it. It was their first time there, and I knew that they would never have ever gone there if I didn't take them.
We had a wonderful time. The movie was Invictus with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. We all loved it. I particularly loved it because I admire Mandela's philosophy of "No future without forgiveness." In fact, that's one of my all time favorite books, No Future Without Forgiveness, by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Of course, I had to google the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Each one of us girls could identify with this poem. Can't we all?
The theme of the movie was how Mandela used a rugby team to pull the country together. I've noticed that sports and music know no political boundaries. I think it's governments that get in the way.
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