music within...earn a point of view

i know, i'm going blog-crazy again, but i've just got so much inside that needs to come out and this seems to be the best place for that to happen right now. and i'm sort of exercising compartmentalization...each new thought gets a new post =)

last weekend i rented a movie on i-tunes to watch while i was in the city. it was called "music within". the story is about a man who loses his hearing in an explosion during the war in vietnam and the only person he's able to hear is a man with cerebral palsy. the deaf man, right after losing his hearing, tries to get into college to be a writer or speaker but is denied because of his disability, so he goes straight to a public-speaking professor himself to try to convince him of his knack for speaking on stage. after giving his prepared speeches, the professor basically tells the man that he's the best speaker he's ever heard, but he's full of crap. he then tells him to, "go earn a point of view and come back when you have something to say." the guy goes on to earn his point of view by working to get employers to hire the war vets who were disabled in action, and he eventually has a hand in getting the veterans with disabilities bill passed.

that line has really stuck with me this week..."earn a point of view". i'll probably have more thoughts on it to come later.