Watching the Toy Story trilogy once over again reminds me of the time that has passed and how fast it has passed. I remember first watching it at the movies in 1995. I was only 8 then. It was one of those rare moments when my dad finally relented to the pestering of his three sons to bring them to the movies. Indeed, this is something I grew up to. The familiarity of Randy Newman's "You've got a friend in me" will stick with me through the years that is going to come; that along with Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Rex and the others.
I guess it's familiarity that brings us through our lives. It is the unknown that scares us the most even though we have no clue what it might do to us. Who knows, it might actually benefit us a whole lot more than the familiar. Which kind of showed throughout the trilogy- changes are constantly happening. It is only with change that we can grow. Sometimes we reminisce about the familiar. Memories of that will forever be by us. Changes will come by hard and fast. That's why I never really do care about the future. I mean I do plan, but not in the sense that I'd forsake what my present presents me.
Bask in the moments that you are in- be it in joy or in hardships. Life is meant to be lived once so be prudent about life's choices. That's what I've learnt from a cartoon. I guess, my mom's wrong about cartoon then- I do learn things.
I miss being a kid.
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