Time Travel: Would it really change your story?
With the first year of lockdowns in South Africa behind us, many are dealing with grief on some level. Whether it’s time with loved ones, financial losses, a lost job or the ultimate tragedy of losing someone to Covid-19… each one of us has faced loss. Hindsight has been useful in teaching us about what we should have held dear, but it can also be painful. Looking back, it may seem obvious – we should have seen these setbacks coming. One could spend hours analysing what one should have done before the pandemic struck, travelling back in time to unpick mistakes. The more productive thing to do, even in the anger and regret of grief is to shift perspectives, look at events from a different angle. Accept that the unknown will eventually become your past and shape who and where you are. This article first appeared on FirstRand Perspectives. – Melani Nathan
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he was clean and sober at the time, having already been treated in rehab for addictions in his early 20s. and you said in the post it was a certain weight that came with it. a certain darkness as part of what made his acting so compelling and so complete that he was almost carrying the scars of i guess what he d been through. absolutely. and there was a darkness there, there s a past there that you don t know about. and i always appreciated that in his acting. it also seems bled into the way that he chose his roles and chose the films that he ended up in. i mean, films like love liza that are very dark in their material and tone. butter somehow the most lovable and compelling experiences in watching films for me. there was an exchange between you in almost famous i want to play in more detail now. this is the scene that director