Day 97: ‘Dear Disney…’

THERE’S not many of these ‘like and share’ Facebook posts that I enjoy. I normally see them as a chain letter in modern form, or the content is a strange way to encourage people to pray or think about someone in unfortunate circumstances, suggesting “you don’t care if you don’t like or share”. 

Whenever I see something like that, I say a little prayer for whoever appears in the photograph rather than sharing or liking the image. You can only hope that if there is someone up there listening, that they may do something to help those less fortunate than ourselves - I know Facebook has mastered most things, but I don’t believe divine intervention is quite one of them.

However, over the past few days my timeline has been full of pictures of Disney characters. A simple, harmless concept that has put a smile on my face every time. 

There is no Disney film that can fail to make me smile, laugh and sometimes even cry. So being reminded of some of the greats has been a delight..and thinking up who fits with what character, has also been fun.

It has made me think though about which Disney character I would like to be, and I have to say it’s a tough one. As much as there’s always a happy ending, a lot of the characters have some issues.

Let’s look at Ariel in the Little Mermaid..she’s beautiful, has a lovely singing voice, has found a rathe handsome prince, understands what a fork does as much as my daughter does, and has some excellent friends. But she is still a mermaid, and if she’s not a mermaid, she’s either cursed, or forced to live on land without her family. Too troubling.

Then there’s Cinderella. Well we all know she doesn’t start out with the best lot. I mean don’t get me wrong, she gets to clean and tidy all day, which for a woman with OCD is a nice thought. Plus she always has the help of lots of little animals who sing to her and dress up like people (which let’s face it is the dream isn’t it?!) 

But then there’s the dodgy step mum and annoying stepsisters and the fact that if she misses her tram home, everything turns into pumpkins! She does meet her prince in the end, but this is someone who is prepared to gamble his future on someone with the same size foot as that flippin' glass slipper - too risky to marry a gambler?!

I know, I’m crazy, and that is why I’ve decided to choose Dory from Finding Nemo. This gal is a fruit loop, forgets things a lot (me) is reasonably clumsy (me) but is lucky to have fantastic people around her to help her wend her way through life (me). 

All in all, I believe I must continue in life with the mantra to: “Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.”