Nancy: I know you're there Freddy.
Freddy Krueger: You think you was gonna get away from me?
Nancy: I know you too well, Freddy.
Freddy Krueger: Now you die.
Nancy: It's too late, Krueger. I know the secret now. This is just a dream. You're not alive. This whole thing is just a dream.
[she turns around and faces him]
Nancy: I want my mother and friends again.
Freddy Krueger: You what?
Nancy: I take back every bit of energy I gave you. You're nothing. You're shit.
Read it. Pay special attention to the lines in bold. I've never found Nightmare to be a horror flick so much as an inspiration. Hearing Nancy tell Freddy he was shit was actually quite life changing. Turns out, the moment we turn our back on our fears and stop giving them power, obstacles are remover and a world of possibility is now open to us. I always said "I can't run" I'm athletic in others ways so it's ok, but I simply can't run. Truth was, I was afraid to try. Afraid I'd fail and saying "I can't" was a convenient excuse, my own personal Freddy Krueger. One day I turned my back on that fear. I ran a mile and a half. Called my Mom out of breath and overjoyed. Then I ran 5 miles. Then 7.5. Then I decided to train for a marathon. I ran Baystate and when the going got tough around 20 miles I remember saying to myself "Fuck you, Marathon. You're Shit. I'm not afraid of you." And I wasn't. I finished. I qualified for Boston. Guess I can run.
The moral of this, for me, is once I get past the fear I can probably do anything I put my mind to. Powerful.
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