Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Are You and Institutional Man (or Woman)?

Near the climax of the 1994 film, The Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) engages in a dialogue with Red (Morgan Freeman) about his dreams of what life would be like outside of prison.  Andy encourages Red to dream with him to which Red retorts, " I couldn't hack it on the outside.  Been in here too long.  I'm and institutional man now."  Red pleads with Andy to stop torturing himself with "pipe dreams" of Mexico, to which Andy responds, "I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really.  Get busy living, or get busy dying."  Follow this link for a video clip of the exchange.

In what parts of your own life have you become "institutionalized'?




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