Cast away is one of my favorite movies and even though there is an obvious connection to sickness leaving me stranded on an island in the middle of nowhere with power over nothing, it still moves me to stay alive, keep breathing, against all hope and logic.

I don’t want to die – but sometimes it seems unimaginable that life can or will ever change.

Maybe I needed to hear these words again today – maybe I needed that reminder that tomorrow the sun will rise and the tide may bring a sail that will get me off this island.

Keep breathing my friends.

I had power over *nothing*. And that’s when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket. I knew, somehow, that 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 again. So that’s what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing. And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, and gave me a sail. … And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?