My Inner Child

I am a big fan of The Minions and Kung Fu Panda. Some may view this as ridiculous. Kiddy fare for an adult. There wasn’t much to be happy about or even much less laughter in my early years. The highlight of happiness was watching the Harlem Globetrotters on television. This raised my spirits, even if only for a short time, like a mini-vacation from the painful existence.

Watching Kung Fu Panda, how Po navigates his now life while he reconciles his past, is quite enlightening for me. Showing how he is able to build relationships, learn new ways of finding inner peace, learning about his past and how that shaped him. The messages in it have impacted how I am living my life now, too. I like to watch them again, movies I and II, as I find other messages I missed. Even though it is just a cartoon. There is much wisdom in this show. I am looking forward to the new one coming out in January.

As for The Minions, it is a wonderful laugh track for me. In some ways, they accidentally do the right thing. The silliness is something that has been missing in my life. It helps me to get in touch with that child-like part of me that has been walled off for years. They have camaraderie, don’t take too much personally when bumpy things happen. They get back to trying something else.

I haven’t much of an attention span for long movies. I do like comedies. My husband looks forward to when he can have a day or a long enough span to get lost in those movies. He knows my attempt to try to follow them can be sporadic. He is very kind about telling me what is happening.

When it comes to cartoon movies, even Monsters’ Inc., I will watch them from beginning to end. We even splurge by going to the theater. It is one of my happy places to bring out the child in me. I realize that I do not laugh enough. When something is so funny, I am doubled over in laughter, I feel so much better inside. My energy shifts and I feel much lighter.

Since laughter is an important key for my emotional, mental and physical health, I am working on incorporating more funny bits into my daily life either on YouTube, reading the funnies or listening to a comedy show on the MP3 player. Of course, my son often cracks me up. Find the comedy in daily life.