Random Blog: "Crash"

The topic for this week was "random blog." I'm not very good at writing without direction, so I started to think about my past week to find a topic to blog about...

I decided to write about the movie Crash - I have seen this movie multiple times, but just recently watched it this past week. Personally, I think that it is one of the best movies to come from Hollywood in a while. It integrates a number of cultures and social classes to illustrate how their various interactions/conflicts impact other's lives.
This message always makes me reflect on my life. I start to think about how our actions can influence someone else's life - and how we often do so without even knowing.
Being in college is a great example. We interact with hundreds of students during our college years - many of whom we may never see again - but those brief interactions may stay with us for the rest of our lives. These exchanges involve simple conversations with other students, certain lectures that professors give, various projects we have to complete – the list goes on.
Additionally, while attending Clemson, I've participated in a number of volunteer activities such as Habitat for Humanity, visiting the elderly at nursing homes, and a program called "Christmas Commandos," which provides Christmas gifts to underprivileged kids. While those people may not remember me personally, I know that they will remember the house we provided them with or the time I spent with them playing bingo or the joy those kids felt on Christmas morning when they found a pile of gifts left anomalously on their front doorstep.
I’ve discovered that, for the most part, it's the feeling of knowing that someone else cares about you that makes the greatest impact. As humans, I think that one of our greatest needs is to be wanted by someone else - to know that someone else loves you and cares about you.

I could discuss this topic for another couple of paragraphs, but I think the best way to summarize both this movie and the main message I take from it is this quote from the movie: "It's the sense of touch...I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something" (Crash, 2004).