 | | © Miramax Pictures - all rights reserved | In the movie Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon plays a character named Will Hunting who struggles with fear and hunger. His fears produce complacency which causes him to settle for a shallow existence in South Boston. Yet, he meets a girl named Skylar played by Minnie Driver who changes his life. Upon graduating from Harvard, she moves to the west coast forcing Will to make a difficult choice. Will he surrender to his fears or is his hunger for love enough to overcome them? It is the classical struggle of the human race.  | | © Miramax Pictures - all rights reserved | We all have big dreams, but how many of us have the courage to chase them until they are realized? If you yield to fear you become a passive participant in life. The outside influences and circumstances determine where life takes you. Throughout most of the movie, Will sat in the passenger’s seat of his friend’s car watching life pass by out his window. Fear consumes life, leaving mere survival in its wake. Hunger motives us to find what we need to truly thrive.  | | © Miramax Pictures - all rights reserved | Like Will Hunting, we all have our reasons for not wanting to venture beyond the safe comfortable boundaries we have placed around us. Fear is usually triggered from past wounds which have been inflicted upon us. It curbs our appetite for life and causes us to play it safe and settle for lesser things. It keeps us from chasing after what our souls need to breathe deeply. Will Hunting could have allowed his awful wounds to keep him from pursuing what he really wanted. He could have embraced his fears and lived with regret and self-pity for the rest of his life. Yet, with the help of Sean Maguire, played by Robin Williams, Will confronted the fears that kept him from going after what he needed to really live. In the end he decided togo see about a girl. 
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