I See You

Last night I had the pleasure of watching Avatar with my son. Neither of us had seen it, and both found it breathtakingly beautiful (my words, not his, just in case there's any doubt about that).

The movie has a very powerful message about connection with spirit, trust, love, betrayal, redemption, goodness...

Afterward my son said it was probably his favorite movie ever, and a bit later, he said: "You probably liked it because it was spiritual, Mom." I answered that I did, and also because it was about love. "Your two favorite things," he said.

Yep. And as I know from my very recent past and as the movie so beautifully depicts, truly seeing someone, and letting them see you, is powerful beyond the words available to describe it.

Here's how the theme song tries to encapsulate it:

I see you
I see you

Walking through a dream, I see you
My light in darkness, breathing hope of new life
Now I live through you and you through me, enchanting
I pray in my heart that this dream never ends

I see me through your eyes
Breathing new life, flying high
Your love shines the way into paradise
So I offer my life as a sacrifice
I live through your love

You teach me how to see all that's beautiful
My senses touch a world I never pictured
Now I give my hope to you, I surrender
I pray in my heart that this world never ends

I see me through your eyes
Breathing new life, flying high
Your love shines the way into paradise
So I offer my life, I offer my love, for you

When my heart was never open
(And my spirit never free)
To the world that you have shown me
But my eyes could not envision
All the colors of love and of life evermore

Evermore
(I see me through your eyes)
I see me through your eyes
(Living new life flying high)
Flying high

Your love shines the way into paradise
So I offer my life as a sacrifice

And live through your love
And live through your life
I see you
I see you

It sure was nice of James Cameron to make an epic motion picture about the power of truly seeing someone and having them see you, especially since he had the ability to make love triumph with a happy ending. I prayed in my heart that a dream and a world wouldn't end too, pretty blue people, but it appears to have ended all the same.

I'm pretty sure there's a happy ending coming for me, but that movie has yet to be made. So I'm just going to have to take that on faith -- which isn't nearly as satisfying as watching it play out for the blue people while curled up on the couch with my boy...