Thursday, October 19, 2006

Lost and Spirituality

Based on the title of this post, it seems it might be a post for the television blog. But this post is more on the subject of spirituality, and the show Lost just happened to play into this topic.
I watch very little television on weeknights. We have the TiVo capturing what we really want to watch, and I don't want the kids to get distracted. Most other school years, the kids have watched 1/2 hour to 1 hour after supper, this year except for Friday nights, the tv isn't being turned on. (They still watch after school, that's their free time)
So the shows I watch are on the TiVo, and me and my guy watch our shows on the weekends. All this is background for the point of this post.
Last Thursday, a work friend who also watches Lost started to ask me what I thought of the show. I told her I hadn't seen it yet, and explained our TiVo situation. She was very excited with her new theory on the show, and still wanted to tell me her thoughts without spilling what was on the show. That's great by me. Now, she's not one to be reading a lot of blogs about her favorite shows, as is evident by her 'new' thoery that the island is some waiting point after death, the trials the plane crash victims are going through are determining where they will go. And even the title of the show is meant as a clue to the spirituality behind it. (I like to see people excited about their shows and their theories, and I didn't tell her that other people have already thought of that) It's a good thoughtful theory, no matter who thought of it first.
So my point, and ponderance of the week, here is that after she told me her theory, she said she had only told me because she knew I was a "spiritual person" and I'd understand.
This is the part that has me pondering. I am a spiritual person, but she and I have never talked about spirituality. The closest we've ever gotten to the subject was that she attends the same church as my grandmother. How did she 'know' that I am spiritual? And does she realize that her definition of 'spiritual' is probably very different from mine. Does she get some 'vibe' from me that I'm on that wave-lenght? Is she basing her presumption on my work ethic and how I deal with people?
This is the thing that's makin' me go 'hmmm' this weeek.