"We both had done the math, and Kelly added it all up. She knew she had to let me go. I added it up, knew that I'd lost her.'Cause I was never gonna get off that island. I was gonna die there, totally alone. I mean, I was gonna get sick or get injures.
The only choice I had, the only thing I could control was when and how and where that was gonna happen. So I made a rope. And I went up to the summit to hang my-self. But 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 III 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 then one day that logic was proven all wrong because the tide came in, 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?" ——Tom Hanks
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