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My Dad is a Wookie!
It’s not a secret that I am a big fan of Star Wars. I have numerous shirts, have played several games over the years, seen all the movies more times than I can count, read as many of the books as I can, and will talk about it with anyone who will listen.
Recently I had a conversation with a friend who told me how he felt like he had learned a lot of lessons on morality from a show called Kung Fu that he watched when he was a kid. This made me think and I feel like aside from my Christian upbringing I learned a lot of moral lessons from Star Wars. I learned things like never give up in the face of insurmountable odds, that someone who seems like a nobody has the potential to change everything, I learned about loyalty to one’s friends no matter what, I saw that sometimes we make mistakes, but it’s never too late to turn around and do the right thing, and that even the worst people given the chance can be redeemed.
My first memory of Star Wars was watching an ABC special showing of Re…
Recently I had a conversation with a friend who told me how he felt like he had learned a lot of lessons on morality from a show called Kung Fu that he watched when he was a kid. This made me think and I feel like aside from my Christian upbringing I learned a lot of moral lessons from Star Wars. I learned things like never give up in the face of insurmountable odds, that someone who seems like a nobody has the potential to change everything, I learned about loyalty to one’s friends no matter what, I saw that sometimes we make mistakes, but it’s never too late to turn around and do the right thing, and that even the worst people given the chance can be redeemed.
My first memory of Star Wars was watching an ABC special showing of Re…