I’ve found that anytime people start to bring in more mystical things or things with “hidden meanings”, I tend to become very skeptical. It seems like it’s so easy to turn anything into a big deal out of something extremely small.
I don’t think that I used to be this way. In fact, I used to be into lots of conspiracy theories. JFK, Lincoln, 9/11, Illuminati, etc. You name it, I probably researched the heck out of what conspiracies I could latch onto.
It seems to me though that these are mechanisms people use to deal with issues that aren’t complex but they want them to be.
Think of it this way. There is a director of a film. He makes this movie and it has an ending where after the hero saves the damsel in distress, on their way walking into the sunset in the last shot, the girl looks back at the camera and winks as the screen blacks out.
The director was thinking this could be a cute way to end this romantic western. A little wink from the girl.
Barbara Barbarason watches this movie and when she gets to the end with the girl winking, she thinks through the whole movie and then wonders if the wink at the end meant that maybe the girl was on the bad guy’s team the whole time and actually just got the good guy to believe. That’s why she winks. As somewhat of an “I got you.”
The director had absolutely no intention of this when he was creating it. But now this Barbara person has hinted at this huge potential story ark off of one little wink at the end.
I think a lot can be dramatized off of one thing that was meant to be simple and it’s dangerous and a waste of time to read more into things than that.
I should probably work on not always being quite so skeptical, but I challenge you to think through what some of the things you might be reading too far into might be and see about obsessing a little less.