About Childhood

By the way, I don't even know why I always say "you" as if addressing an audience. I don't even think people read the blog (except Mr. Bourne). I guess sometimes you feel the need to express your thoughts. That's kind of what this is, just small musings about life/journally stuff. Also by the way, when I said I watched this when I was little, I was actually 3-5. I'm not just trying to cover up as if I watch it everyday and say "when I was little" to not embarrassed myself.
Do you ever read through your old picture books, or try to find old movies you used to love as a kid? SATs were today and since I felt totally brain dead, I ate some lunch, tried to do some homework, but basically slacked off the rest of the time to watch "The Grand Adventures of Winnie the Pooh", a childhood classic. Such a good movie. It's funny because a lot of children movies have adult references too so that adults can watch it with their kids and not get totally bored, and I actually got some references that I never got as a kid. There's also a lot of clever little funny references. At one point Owl's telling this story about his aunt who eloped with a pussy cat in a sea green boat which is an allusion to the classic The Owl and the Pussycat poem. There's even some slightly advanced vocab like when Gopher's calling Rabbit a "supercilious scoundrel." Definitely didn't know what that meant when I was little. But, there were some things praised in the movie that when I think about it shouldn't have been praised. So basically, there's a huge wind storm which turns into a flooding of the hundred acre wood and Owl's house gets knocked down. Eeyore looks for a house and comes up with Piglet's. Everyone's really confused and try to tell Eeyore that the house is Piglet's but Owl likes the house and so Piglet "heroically" gives up his house while starting to cry. Everyone commends him and Pooh says he can live with him instead. What kind of lesson is that? Give up your house just because someone else likes it? Seriously, Eeyore could have easily just found a vacant house or all of them could have worked together to build a new one. Sure, sharing and helping other in need is a good lesson, but doing so unnecessarily? It just doesn't seem right. When it came to the end, it was depressing as I remember it being. Christopher Robin tells Pooh he's going to school and won't be back for a long time. He's says for Pooh to think of him and wait. It seemed a little sad because it's like childhood ending by physically leaving his (imaginary?) animal friends and growing up. Sure, he could come back, but everything changes and so each time one goes back it's different. That's kind of a sad thought and reminded me of how once something's gone, you can never recreate it. It's like birthdays. Every year you're older and can never be younger again. You just go through life, not fully appreciating it, and keep plodding along until you don't. (Not trying to be histrionic by the way, just thinking...)