ReBecca Richardson: Blog 2-reading

Robert Jewett's piece, "Stuck in Time: Kairos, Chronos, and the Flesh in Groundhog Day," inspired deeper thinking in me. Originally I tried to understand Groundhog Day through the character Phil's perspective. Jewett made it a bigger issue. He focuses on the inferences of flesh and spirit from a Pauline perspective. What struck me the most however was the quote he took from Richard Corliss, which stated "most folks' lives are like Phil's on Groundhod Day: a repitition, with the tiniest variations, of ritual pleasures and annoyances. Routine is the metronome marking most of our time on earth. Phil's gift is to see the routine and seize the day." This qoute was important because beforehand I was looking at the movie in an external sense; seperate from myself. Corliss makes that sense an internal one. We as humans do not have the ability to redo our days to perfect them, we have only the present. Sometimes we pass through life and do not make the most of it; like existing and not living. Our lives can become repititous through rountine, to the point that we no longer appreciate what life is, and what it means. Also any pleasure brought about through flesh is always temporary, even drugs wear off. Pleasure through the spirit can transcend the flesh and bring purpose to one's life. Thus I appreciate Jewett's enlightenment.