3 Taoist Lessons from Groundhog Day
Does your life feel like the same day over and over again? Keep reading!
Groundhog Day is a classic! It is amongst one of my favourite films. The joyful way it shows us how our perspective towards life is the changing point for the way we experience it, is a delight! It’s like the metaphor of the glass of water: is it half full or half empty? When you are forced to choose your brain gets stuck. It needs some expansion to be able to see other possibilities that are not there when you are confronted with the problem from that point of view.
First of all, Groundhog Day is incredibly funny and it hooks the viewer from the first scene. It’s kind of like Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life reversed. Whether in this one the main character played by James Stewart is confronted with what the world would be like if he had never been born; in Groundhog Day, Phil, played by Bill Murray, faces the same day over and over again ad infinitum. It really makes you wonder what would you do if you got stuck in a cold Winter day in a place you didn’t want to be. And how many of us go about life feeling just like that?
As the days progress in an endless repetition, we get more and more empathetic towards the grumpy main character, who couldn’t be any other than Bill Murray, as if the actor had been born to play this role! His arrogance is almost…
