Life can be a slippery slope. Yes, it is cliché. We have heard it all our lives from our mothers, our fathers, and countless other elders. But, unfortunately for us, it is true. Gray areas are gray for a reason. When we feel like we are standing on the edge of cliff or walking dangerously close to the line, we feel like that for a reason. And, while we may wish to believe that we would never cross whatever lines we have drawn for our lives, it is difficult to ignore the fact that sometimes we find ourselves dangerously close and even over those lines and all we can do is look back at each step we took to get there.
In the movie Derailed, we see this slip down the slope, fall off a cliff, and tumble over many lines. As the movie’s tagline indicates, “they never saw it coming.” As the first few lines of the movie tell us, “the morning it all began began like any other morning…” But, unfortunately for the characters of Derailed, “it” happened. And while they never expected it, planned on it, or imagined it, their lives quickly went from one side of the line to very much on the other.
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