Br. John wrote: A few weeks before my seventeenth birthday I saw Star Wars (now known as Episode IV A New Hope). That was in 1977. I can't remember how many times I went back to see it again but it was plenty. I sneaked in a cassette tape recorder so I could listen to it at home. The idea of The Force resonated with me.
Wow, I wish I had been born just a few years earlier to say I had seen it then. I had a similar experience, except it was at home, watching the VHS tapes. During one summer, before the Special Edition of the original trilogy came out, I watched one of the movies nearly every day. It would be safe to say I was obsessed. So I took to the internet chat rooms, found a few people who were just as obsessed, and I never looked back.
I started thinking of the Force as something real, but it was some years (or months, I can't really remember) before I happened upon someone who had the same views.
