As a single working mom with 5 darling children, I do not have much time for the movies, or extracurricular activities.

Yet, last night was a grand celebration of my 2-year anniversary of rebirth and new life.  So, I hired a friend to babysit, and met a new friend for a movie date.

We were going to see “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: An IMAX 3D Experience”.  This was after much research, to find that there are no highly rated films, and at least this one will provide an experience, an adventure.

However, my friend was late, and we ended up seeing “Surrogates” with Bruce Willis.  This movie was actually my first choice, as I love Sci-Fi, but the reviews were negative.

And as it happens through out life, everything happens for a reason.  “Surrogates” was an excellent film in expressing the concept of what might happen to us humans if we were given the opportunity to change our looks and presence by choosing a surrogate, a robot, that we are programmed into and can virtually live through.

We can be beautiful, thin — have blond long hair (blond’s do have more fun, right?), or have the muscles of a man who works out at the gym every day for 20 years.

On top of that, are we morally responsible for what we do through our surrogate?  Can we take more risks, act more daring, less cautious? 

This reminds me of the early days of virtual worlds, which I was a part of in 1996 San Francisco.  Now, it has developed to the most popular “Second Life”, where through digital representations of oneself, we can be whomever we want.  And, we can express that part of us that may not be accepted or acceptable in the “real world”.

As a human race, as technology progresses — it is more important than ever to grasp who we are, inside and out.  To accept and love who we are, and to make the necessary changes we need to in order to be a better person. 

No technology can hide who we really are, from others or from ourselves. 

Don’t you agree?

“Faith is a passionate intuition.“ — William Wordsworth