John Locke.  Yes finally John Locke’s turn.  I know a lot of people have been waiting for him because he’s a favorite.  In fact I absolutely love him myself.  What is it about John that makes him so mysterious?  I think this post will have more questions than statements, nevertheless I will attempt it.  Starting off, Locke’s history is sad.  It makes me want to cry, because if you imagine yourself in that situation, you know it would be horrible.  We never see much of his childhood.  I mean you have characters like Sawyer that showed things that happened to them as a child, and you know why they are messed up, but Locke is different.  I wouldn’t even call Locke “messed up,” maybe just “different.”

In one episode we see John give his kidney to a man that he thought loved him (his father), and then turns around and drops him with the drop of a hat.  Locke later claims to Sayid that the surgical scar was a “war wound,” and I’ve never been able to figure out why.  Maybe he is hiding his past, or maybe he really thought it happened. 

I think that John somehow always sees the big picture.  His faith is enormous.  When I say faith though I don’t necessarily mean in God.  It’s hard to pinpoint what be believes, but John definitely believes in fate, and knows that everything that happens on the island was “meant to happen.”  Gosh I love people that are like that.  I love it when people take what happens and says, “Can’t you see this was meant to happen.”  My favorite Locke quote of the entire series so far is, “All paths lead here.”  He is so right.  He’s like a philosopher.  In fact there is a philosopher named John Locke, and I didn’t know anything about him until the other day.  For a little information on the philosopher John Locke, he was a free-thinker.  Without a doubt though, believed in God.  He believed that we only saw the appearance of things as they were on the outside, but not the underlying realities which makes those things appear as they do.  Very interesting indeed.  Sounds a lot like the character.  John Locke (the character) believes that there is a lot more going on than they can see.  You have people like Jack claiming left and right that it’s just a coincidence, but John doesn’t think so.  He knows there is another meaning to it all.  And that’s what I love about him, his faith.  He even told Jack that in an episode.  He called Jack a “man of science,” and referred to himself as a “man of faith.”  That’s so awesome to me.

Why did John lie about his surgical scar?  I know I mentioned that earlier, but it’s something I just cannot figure out.  Is he ashamed of his past?  He’s such a weird guy, but at the same time he seems like he knows what he’s doing more than anyone on that island.  Isn’t that a contradiction?  He has the ability to see what’s happening, and solve everyone’s problems.  I don’t know how it’s possible, but he’s just always on top of things.  In my opinion he would make a better leader than Jack at some times during the show.  He’s the kind of guy that reminds you of a cult leader in a way.  Perhaps his miraculous healing since he arrived on the island is what causes him to believe so much.  Experiencing anything like that can change your life I’m sure.  John’s main point of view is always “The Island will tell us,” and we see through so many episodes how this seems to happen.  “The Island” shows him things through him.  For example when he and Boone found the crashed plane.  Had his legs not stopped functioning, he wouldn’t have fell down and located it.  It also just seems like Locke is supernatural.  Remember when he had the dream, about Boone, he prophesied him being bloody and claiming that about Theresa (his past nanny) and a statement that Boone sung about her.  Something to ponder though: would Boone have died if John wouldn’t have had that dream causing it.  It’s a paradoxical loop.  There is no answer to that.

What can we learn from Locke?  To be more open minded in life.  To believe that things that happen always have that “underlying” meaning.  That nothing happens by chance.  That’s a tough thing to believe though, but wouldn’t we all be at ease knowing that?  If I believed that, I wouldn’t do half of the things that I do in my life.  Like I’ve always said, I love the idea of fate and destiny, I just have a problem believing it.  I think that’s why Locke is so calm about everything.  I mean, think about when he was about to fall into the pit that the “black smoke” pulled him into.  He told Jack to “let him go” because it was all a test.  My gosh if I only had that kind of faith in life.  To John it’s all a puzzle, a puzzle in which the pieces will come together.  The island brought them there, and there is a reason.  Very inspirational.