We both had done the math. Kelly added it all up and…
knew she had to let me go. I added it up,
and knew that I had… lost her. ‘cos I was never gonna get off that island.
I was gonna die there, totally alone. I was gonna get sick,
or get injured or something. The only choice I had,
the only thing I could control was when, and how, and where it was going to happen.
So… I made a rope and I went up to the summit, to hang myself.
I had to test it, you know? Of course. You know me.
And the weight of the log, snapped the limb of the tree,
so I-I - , I couldn’t even kill myself the way I wanted to.
I had power over *nothing*.
And that’s when this feeling came over me like a warm blanket.
I knew, somehow, that I had to stay alive. Somehow.
I had to keep breathing. Even though there was no reason to hope.
And all my logic said that I would never see this place again.
And all my logic said that I would never see this place again.
So that’s what I did. I stayed alive. I kept breathing.
And one day my logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in,
and gave me a sail. And now, here I am.
I’m back. In Memphis, talking to you. I have ice in my glass…
And I’ve lost her all over again. I’m so sad that I don’t have Kelly.
But I’m so grateful that she was with me on that island.
And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing.
Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
Chuck Noland - Cast Away