To all Guardians

I might have just re-watched Rise of the Guardians, because it's freaking awesome.

Every time I finish watching an animated film (not anime, I'm sorry) I always feel that there's something magical about it. Maybe it's the surreality of it, the perfectly crafted characters that will never exist, or the cheesy but wonderful good versus evil story line. I can't really capture what it is exactly, but I know it warms my heart every time. I felt the same after watching Despicable Me, Tangled, Kung Fu Panda, Megamind, Finding Nemo - just to name a few. The films amalgamate fun and laughter with a valuable lesson, and the result is simply, for a lack of word, out of this world.

It sets me thinking about how it would have impacted people all around the world. Globally, people would be captivated by the same magical feeling that makes us cherish something dearer, feel better about ourselves, and ponder about the things that make us happy. I just love that.

I started this blog wanting to discover a superpower I never had, probably never will have, and definitely hidden for life if it did exist. But I choose to believe that it exists, and the day when I witness this superpower will come. I choose to believe in something people would call impossible or remotely achievable. I choose to let my belief go on forever, rather than douse it out.

Perhaps it is how the film resonates with my previous post about how we are desperate for a purpose, where Jack Frost succinctly portrays how our deepest fear and greatest insecurity is to never feel appreciated or believed in. How can we be loved, if we cannot even be seen? For the times we try too hard to gain attention, the moments we sit thinking about what we are doing wrongly, or the instances when we can't seem to please that someone we care so much about, there have been sadness and despair. We reflect about ourselves all the time. We hear jokes that strangers tell, and we secretly laugh in amusement. We see happy, beautiful couples, and we wonder when our time will come. We see cool and popular people and think about how we should change ourselves so that we can be like them - adored and attractive. If you ever had these feelings, you, too, have been in a place where you didn't fit before. You felt lonely and purposeless, like a drifting log in the sea. There was just no one to talk to, or no one that could relate to you, just like Jack.

But it is precisely these feelings that made me stronger, and they will make you too. No one said you have to be popular. Someone did, however, say you need to be happy, and that someone is me. Life was never a competition to see who had most friends, and it certainly is not a race to see who can last longer. The aim is to live like everyday was worth it. And even if there are shitty days - which there are bound to be - we need to know that the reason why we find a day dreadful is simply because we have had better, and will have better. You keep telling yourself that, and you might never see a bad day again.

Talking to the Moon

"Is there something I'm doing wrong? Can you just tell me what it is? Because I've tried, everything, and no one ever sees me! You put me here, the least you can do is tell me... tell me why..."