![]() I’ve had a few, and I have found that I tend to do a fairly good job of keeping my head for the duration of the emergency. Have you ever had to dig deep to face a challenge where death was a possibility, and managed to face it, and come out alive? While death (from the quote) is kind of hard to stare down, we’ve all had some close calls in our life. This is just a chance to think about it, and consider what you might change We will all draw the line in a different place, depending on the situation and our ability (and willingness to accept risk). I doubt you even know someone that adverse to challenges, but we all fall somewhere between the ideal of the quote and the scaredy-cat. The challenge just gets bigger and stronger when I don’t stand up to it.Īgain, if you get in the habit of running from the impossible challenges, what will you do when something lesser comes along? If your first reaction is to hide, eventually (taken to the extreme) you will be afraid of your own shadow. In my life, it almost never works that way. However, it doesn’t always work that way. Yes, sometimes if we hide from a challenge, it will pass us by, and we can come out of hiding none the worse for it. ![]() If you get used to folding under pressure, what will you do when something you can change, but only with great effort comes before you? Will you face it, or hide from it? ![]() While that is a personal decision, I believe hiding and trembling make for a bad precedent. What do we do when misfortune smiles at us? Do we tremble in fear, or do we smile back? Like death, these things can sneak up on us and wreck our plans with little or no warning. No matter how smart, strong, powerful, or influential we think we are, there are forces beyond our ability to understand, much less control. While the quote is about death in particular, I believe it applies to every thing we do. Somehow, I doubt he actually said it, but it does sound Stoic, doesn’t it? This quote is attributed to Marcus Aurelius in the movie Gladiator, however I couldn’t find it in his surviving written works*. How would your life be different, what could you do, if you could smile back at all the challenges in your life? If not all, perhaps one or two? Would it make a difference? Artisan's DVD presentation is free of extras.It’s hard not to smile back at this guy. Savant and costar Nia Peeples are serviceable as the leads, while their more experienced supporting cast (headed by Michael Ironside) does what it can to keep the plot moving. ![]() Viewers familiar with other adaptations of Cook's novels (which include the vastly superior theatrical release Coma as well as TV movies like Virus and Acceptable Risk) will find the goings-on a comfortably familiar way to kill 90 minutes, while non-fans may dismiss this as a forgettable potboiler. In his search to discover the truth behind this miraculous new treatment, Savant puts his career and his life at risk. However, it appears that the only patients who are benefiting from the experiment are wealthy elderly men. Melrose Place's Doug Savant is a young researcher at a hospital who learns that the facility has developed a cure for cancer. Based on the novel by bestselling author Robin Cook, this 1996 made-for-television feature is a competent yet thoroughly unremarkable medical thriller that should appeal mainly to non-discerning followers of the author's work.
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