There are things that happen in life that cause us to reflect on life. There are things in life that make us stop and think about the life we’ve lived and the life we’ve wanted to live.
We know that when the news came earlier this year that Jeremy Renner had been in a snowplow accident, we stopped to think about how fleeting life is. Now, do we know Jeremy? No. But it just felt like we needed to take a moment and think about life and how in a moment life can change.
For those that knew him, we can’t even imagine. Chris Hemsworth, who has starred with Renner in The Avengers movies, had the realization when the accident happened that “any one of us can go at any moment.”
We know that it’s something that we all really know, but it’s also something that we, as human beings, have a tendency (in this writers opinion) to think about more when it hits close to home. When it’s someone we know that survives an accident, we tend to think about our lives more and what people mean to us.
“We were all on our Avengers text chain, we were all chatting. And it was wild. None of us really knew how serious it was,” Chris Hemsworth said when talking with British GQ. “I think anything like that, it’s an immediate realization of ‘Wow, any of us can go at any minute…’”
Thinking about all of that is emotionally wearing. It’s also something that Chris is thinking about more as he turns 40, even though that is where he is at in life. He may feel 25, but his birthday is coming up on August 11th. Chris is now thinking about how he’s though he has a lot of time, but is, “now I’m like, ‘Oh, I could be halfway. More than halfway.’”
We feel that. But Renner’s accident wasn’t the only thing that has made him think about his life and the legacy that he is leaving. The actor’s grandfather had recently passed and had Alzheimer’s. Chris’s “uncle specifically said, ‘He’s remembered as a good bloke.’”
And for Chris it made him think.
“It made me think about my own life,” Hemsworth told the outlet, “And it wasn’t about career or anything. It was about being remembered as someone who was good and kind and contributed something of value… I certainly don’t think about the films I’m going to leave behind and how people are going to remember me in that sense. I hope that people think of me fondly and that I was a good person. That I was a good bloke. Like my grandpa.”
