I have just finished watching the film “the village” i guess it has been out for a few years now and although i have watched it before i never really took as much notice as i did this time.

For those of you who haven’t watched the film it is about a group of people who experience great loss of their loved ones to crime, so hey go into hiding by creating their own village which appears to look like its from 1800′s but really they are in year 2004.

Although they are safe in hiding, it is only their money that is keeping them hidden and the rest of the village ignorant to the world outside. what if their money ran out and they had to leave? what if their hidden village was invaded by crime? how would these people who had lived ignorant all their lives cope?

This is kind of like alcoholism, drink to avoid the world and live pretending it is all ok, although technically alcoholics rarely feel all is ok, and is that not the way here???

People living in a pretend world – pretending all is ok, knowing it is not?

We can pretend that the pain is not there all we like but at the end of the day we can’t lie to ourselves, regardless of if we accept the truth in our mind or not, in our hearts (our emotional self) we will always know we are running away from the truth.

Face your fear and understand it!