The War Is Always In US

Oliver Stone's message in all his movies is best reflected in the ending scene of the movie "Platoon".

The war was never in Vietnam [or any physical battlefield]. It was in us and will always be in us.

He was talking about the battle between the light and the darkness.

I've come to finally emotionally and intellectually understand this, when it comes to letting go of what was lost, who we've lost. The past is unchangeable, but we continue to relive it and to re-think or argue on why it could have been different. Yet, it's all in the past. The dead don't come back in this life. Those who left us do not return in almost every case, especially with the passage of time. Past lives are gone. All there is for us is the future. Maybe it will lead back to our old lives or lovers, but maybe it won't. The point is the past is over, whatever hope we have and wherever we end up, and whoever we end up with (or alone) can only be found by going into the future.

That's the battle in us....to let the darkness of the past imprison us or to free ourselves with the truth of the light --- and that is the reality that all we have is the present and what we do with it forms our future. Men are not gods, we cannot go back in time. We cannot stop time. We are like the sands in the desert winds. Time blows us forward forever, until we ourselves return to dust and sand ourselves.