So it's not often that I can say that a movie makes it to my all time favorite movie slot--its something of a challenge to make it there you see!But I have to admit, this one caught me off guard. Typically I envision movies coming out of Disney with the famed joint collaboration between Disney and Pixar, but this one when it first came out didn't quite make much sense to me. I remember seeing the trailers and thinking to myself... "there's a big dinosaur in the trailer talking about having a big head and little arm's, just how good of a movie is this going to be"!
Quite the contrary though I have to admit--this one touched me at my very core. You know a movie is something that really has ever lasting endurance when each time you see it, physical emotions hit you. They could be laughter, sadness, anger, joy, whatever it manifests itself to be, but it's when we connect at that level that we begin to see all the possibilities as it's something that sticks with us having created a memory not linked by a thought, but linked to an emotional state. It's similar in nature to how we link memories to smells, and those memories tend to be much stronger than just those that we experience.
There is a quite at the end of the movie that touches you at the core and is quickly becoming words that I live by:
Around here we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. - Walt Disney
This goes up there with my other favorite quote:
Ask a question and your a fool for three minutes--don't ask a question and your a fool for life. - Unknown
It's important that we align the way that we live in what we would consider the most virtous ways, actions that when we look back upon our lives in retrospect, we will not shurg ourselves off but look at how we changed and grew and became more than what we were. Meet the Robinson's is a terrific example of how when we are faced with the most uphill challenges in life, we must pull ourselves together and keep moving forward. When we stop and dwell on the things that could have, should have, might have been, we tend to get lost in our own crapulance, and ultimately pay the price because of all the missed opportunities that could have been the Mount Everast of accomplishments in comparision to that which we can't seem to let go.
Having come from an adopted background, family and friends are things that you don't take lightly--in fact for me, it's probably harder to become my friend, because there will always be an underlying thought of abandonment and mistrust. But if you live your life always doubting the goodness that might be out there, you can never forge real relationships with the ones that are around you, but those who you have yet to meet. But let's not also forget about one of the most important foundations to what might just end up being a house of cards, and that is to put the trust in yourself to let go of your worries and doubts and let yourself take a chance on life.
One of the first jobs that I worked at, one of the trainers on the first few days of orientation told me the following words, and they have always stuck with me:
Always be aware of what you say and who you say it to. You never know who might be listening to what you have to say. For all you know, the person in the elevator that you think is just another person, might just end up being the CEO himself!
While some of this is a bit of words to the wise to make sure that as a newbie you don't say the wrong things to step on people's toes, its stuck with me because you never know what turn of events might happen and how that will in turn impact your life. You may have one of the most brilliant thoughts and your just chatting it up with your friends while you are out on a smoke break, but in the elavator you end up being overheard by someone from senior management who then takes you aside and wants to know more of your great ideas--this starts you on a path that will shape and develop you from that point on. Now that's just an example of one such set of circumstances, but I think it's a lost art that people forget about to be mindful of your surroundings and to be aware of the butterfly effects that continually occur around us.
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