LOST... along with Jeffery, Brad & John

It all started with a gallstone. That's right. Before I got the gallstone, there was no WAY I was going to start watching a show like LOST and waste all those hours in front of a TV. Well, one day I got sick and knew I'd be sitting around all weekend so I concurred to watch a few episodes of the infamous LOST. Just as predicted by many, I found myself night after night at 1 am, 2 am and 3 am saying "Ok, just ONE more episode" and then "Ok, just ONE more" After all, there are no commercials when you watch it on DVD right? I'm sure some of you fellow LOSTIES can relate :) As most of you probably have heard, the 6 season nail biting show ended last night. I've heard that mixed emotions were left among fans on how the show ended. Many questions are still unanswered and the final conclusion to the whole thing is not totally clear. But it wouldn't be LOST if it didn't leave room for mystery and interpretation for it's viewers. It's been a reoccurring theme for us on this whole adventure!

After the show hottie Matthew Fox (Jack) was interviewed and said something like "It leaves the viewer to go where he wants with it depending on their own spirituality."

I really liked that and I have done just that. There is so much to say to sum up everything but I want to point out what I took away from the journey to the conclusion of LOST.

None of the characters could remember what happened to them on the island and what they had experienced until they found that one true love of theirs. The person that made them learn to give, to love, to lean on, to depend on. The one that they experienced TRUE PURE LOVE with. That they found the real meaning in life with.

Elder Holland said "More than anything else, we came to earth to learn how to LOVE."

After all we read from the bible “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another.” (John 13:34.)

John 14:15 ¶ If ye ^alove me, ^bkeep my ^ccommandments.

Elder Holland continues about PURE LOVE:

"The first element of divine love—pure love—taught by both Paul and Mormon is its kindness, its selfless quality, its lack of ego and vanity and consuming self-centeredness. “Charity suffereth long, and is kind, [charity] envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own” (Moro. 7:45).

There are many qualities you will want to look for in a friend or a serious date—to say nothing of a spouse and eternal companion—but surely among the first and most basic of those qualities will be those of care and sensitivity toward others, a minimum of self-centeredness that allows compassion and courtesy to be evident. There are lots of limitations in all of us that we hope our sweethearts will overlook. I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech or as wealthy as we would like, but in a world of varied talents and fortunes that we can’t always command, I think that makes even more attractive the qualities we can command—such qualities as thoughtfulness, patience, a kind word, and true delight in the accomplishment of another. These cost us nothing, and they can mean everything to the one who receives them."

Ok ok, I know I am getting all spiritual in my LOST post but hey...Jack said I could! Also, this is a HUGE element of the show. Good vs Evil. Right vs wrong. There is always a choice for us to choose good or to choose evil. If we choose evil, there are ways to come back into the light (Benjamin Linus for example).

Anyways, I will take credit for pointing out at my LOST party that the characters could not remember the big significant events that occured on the island until they connected with the one that they loved. (Cathie, you can take credit for predicting that the show would end with Jack closing his eye..just how the show started!)

I about died at this scene. Sawyer and Juliet had so many flashbacks of love and tenderness together. It also brings up a good point as to why was Juliet married and then divorced to Jack? Why did Sawyer have great chemistry with Kate but fall in LOVE Juliet?

I came to the conclusion that this is the real deal. This is real life. Sometimes people are in our lives that we love, we have chemistry with, they play a significant role in our lives...but we are not supposed to be with them. They have helped us BECOME who we are today but they don't help make us all that we need to BE like the one true love of ours will.

These characters learned to show love, give love and lean on one another. My mission president wrote this book called THE CONTINUOUS ATONEMENT. BY BRAD WILCOX.

In it he says

"Some people see a long checklist that must be completed before we get to heaven. In reality, our willingness to plod along here on earth doesn't earn us points in heaven, but helps us become heavenly. We are not called human DOINGS; we are human BEINGS. Doing is only a means to being.

Scriptures make it clear that our works are a significant factor in where we end up. However, this is not because of what our works earn us, but because of how they SHAPE US. Our condition in eternity will not be determined by what happened to us but rather what will happen in us."

So why did LOST make me think of this? Well, it's because I think that was what happened to the characters. They started BECOMING better people. Leaning on each other, trusting each other, loving each other and even humbling themselves to give up positions of authority (Jack giving Hurley the position of Jacob). And when they realized the true meaning of all of this, they all found one another, the significant people in their lives who made them who they are and they were ready to move on.

Elder Holland is right. We are all here to learn how to love one another. Go against the natural man and be selfless, charitable, loving and "Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad."

My current book of choice that I have been enjoying is JOHN ADAMS.

I have been especially impressed by his relationship with his wife Abigail. He leaned on her, considered her his equal, went to her for advice and support in every aspect of his political, social and personal life. They wrote letters to each other expressing their longing for one another's companionship when they were away from one another. He addressed his letters to "Miss Adorable".

He was a man that despite his differences with other political leaders, he saw the greater good and pushed for the Declaration of Independence to be carried out and signed.

I'm coming to the conclusion that REAL men learn how to love. Whole heartedly with complete soul.

Wow, that was a long post just to sum up a few of my deep thoughts on LOST. But hey, you give 6 seasons of your life away to a show you better have something to say about it. This show exceeded my expectations and made me think deep and ultimately learn and understand life more....mixed in with a few outside sources mentioned above :). Please do share some of your thoughts on the matter...even if you are not a LOST watcher.