The first Jaws movie came out in 1975. I was traveling to Nashville Tennessee that year and my friend persuaded me to go to the theater to watch it. I could not go swimming in the ocean for months after that because I would hear that music in my head.
Isn’t is amazing what movies can do in shaping our thinking and living?
In 1978 I got married, and my new wife and I were in Hawaii for our honeymoon, a trip provided to us by friends. We wanted to do something special while there so we went scuba diving. Neither of us had ever done this before, but laws were pretty lax back then. Anyway, the instructor took us to a beautiful reef and took me down 50ft. There, he told me to wait as he went to get Susan my wife who was on the boat above. The water was so clear that you could see about 200ft. Everything was great until I turned around and looked at the open ocean. There was nothing but blue water. Suddenly, the theme song for Jaws came flooding back into my mind! I turned back towards the reef and thought. I would rather not see it coming because I am a sitting duck!
