The title of our most recent Megillot packet struck me deep in my soul. "THE FINAL SPEECH OF THE AMAL." That's it. The character we've come to love/despise is writing himself out of the book. So what will the Amal have to say for himself? Will he answer all the questions that keep us up at night?
"Mom, buy me Justin Bieber tickets!!"
"Sorry, honey, it's just not within our budget."
"If you don't get me tickets I'm gonna KILL MYSELF."
Does this whiny, pre-teenage, overdramatic, hormonal girl remind you of anyone? The Amal, you say? Yeah, me too. In his final speech, the Amal doesn't leave us satisfied with some life-altering, beautiful epiphany that changes the way we view life. No. Instead, the Amal whines and complains about how it really sucks that we work hard during our lifetime but never reach perfection and we can never have EVERYTHING. The Amal reasons that since he can't take all the money he's earned with him after he dies, he shouldn't have been born in the first place. How's that for overdramatic?
The Amal should listen to the wise words that the acclaimed country singer, Randy Travis, so eloquently states in his hit song "Three Wooden Crosses" (A personal favorite. Grab some tissues, look it up, listen, and let the tears flow),
"I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you, it's what you leave behind you when you go."
What happened to Mr. Save the World that we fell in love with in Perek 4?! He's seemed to have been wiped off the map, and now we are left with a materialistic, selfish nut. I am very disappointed in you, Amal. You haven't helped me solve the meaning of life in any way. We don't need you here anymore. In fact, I am glad to see you go! Leeeaaaavvvvveeeeeeeeeee!
Lily, this post was really entertaining!
ReplyDeleteI was also quit disappointed to see the Amal become a selfish nut, as you said. Unfortunately, as much as we would all love him to leave forever, I have a feeling that he lives on. Where? His philosophy still exists in a lot of people. People want to create perfection. People want to be the superior beings. I wish he was gone forever. If you accept my premise that he's still "alive", look around you. Listen to what people are saying. Does that sound like something the Amal would say? I have a feeling it might. So what do we do with all of this knowledge? We try to overcome the urge to overstep the boundaries of man's purpose on Earth.