As a little girl, I- of course- watched and enjoyed "Alice in Wonderland". But I did not rediscover it until freshman year in high school. I dreamed of being a Barbie in Wonderland. I wanted to be perfect like a barbie, and just as Alice was in the cartoon, but to live in Wonderland.
As we grow up, we find ourselves looking around and thinking that "maturity" is not holding your parent's hands anymore, being too big for those kisses from your mother, not watching cartoons, fixing our own food, picking out our own clothes, and thinking that we should be able to say when we should do something instead of being told to. We're taught to take a look at our surroundings and adapt. We're raised thinking that the only thing you can do with your life is to blend in and be just like everyone else. So we don't explore too much. We see what everyone else does with their lives and we plan ours accordingly. We grow up and go to school to be something that we can do at home- something plain, something average.
But what about the dreams everyone else says are impossible?
Have you ever truly paid attention to "Alice in Wonderland"? Most didn't notice the true story until the second movie came out. After all, in the cartoon she was just a child. But even as a child and despite what everyone else thinks, she lets her imagination roam and shares with those disbelievers. She's just a child so she refers to it as "her world". She dreams about what it would be like to be animals, to be a queen, to to go against what society thinks is right.
Who decides what's right and wrong anyways? Who is this Society guy and why does he set the rules?
In the movie, it shows everyone around her discouraging her. Telling her to dress and behave as society says a girl should. Telling her to stop dreaming all those silly dreams and be realistic. To do the same things that I listed above. But Alice has guts, and those dreams that everyone says are impossible- she sees them in living colors. Not only goes out on a limb- but she leaps onto another limb! She's the definition of a small town girl, that decides "there is so much more for me than what's in this little old town", packs her bags, and heads out on a new adventure to make a difference and be truly happy with her life.
And one day, all those things that we thought we were too old for- we will miss them and wish things were still JUST like that. And one day when you realize you settled for a life like everyone else, you'll wish you had been an Alice. You'll wish that you spent what's supposed to be "the best days of your life" exploring and chasing those "impossible" dreams you dream.
"Simply impassible"- The Doorknob
"You mean impossible?"- Alice
"No! Nothing's impossible!"- The Doorknob
Yes, I may sound a little crazy going on and on about how "Alice in Wonderland", the movie everyone associates acid to, is an inspirational movie. But let me tell you a secret "all the best of us are" :)
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