A Good Man

 As we get on with our goals, I suggest a movie I recently saw on the TV.  It is billed as a “Christmas Movie,” but I think the point of it is quite profound for any season.  The title I believe is “The Good Man,” or “A Good Man.”  The financier has everything he wants, in power, control and money.  He left his girlfriend to get all this over a 13 year period.  But a kind of angel comes along, and he is sent back into what his life would have been about if he had married that young lady 13 years ago.  It all takes place on Christmas Eve.  Married to her, he has two children, is a tire salesman, and goes through what he sees as the family grind.  He knows his old life, but cannot seem to get it back.  This is the spell he is under.  What he comes to realize is that in this family situation, he is needed to sacrifice a lot of himself for others, including walking the dog at night and early morning.  They live in a house in New Jersey.  A 22 year mortgage remains.  In all this he discovers that he is loved and can be loving.  He now wants this life and not his old one.  But he wakes up and is back to his real life of rich and powerful, but without his love.  He goes and finds his girlfriend he dumped.  I cannot go on.  I am crying.  What would be your choice?  See the movie.