Gotta Keep Breathing

Castaway.

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. 

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?

 

You are my Wilson.
You kept me alive, mornyt.