I always find it surprising to me when I've found my feelings invested in something. I'm not a super touchy feely guy when it comes to a lot of stuff but I am very passionate about relationships. Free Willy was the first movie I ever fell in love with. I remember being like 3 or 4 years old and just watching it over and over and over again. My Nana would literally have to turn it off the TV and put me down for a nap so she could watch her soaps. It's weird because it's the memory I always come back to. I remember that harmonica that Jesse played, and the indian man, and Willy jumping over him at the end on the rocks, and Michael Jackson's song. The tunes are engraned within my heart and when I hear the words or I hear the theme I immediately get emotional. I think Free Willy is the greatest symbol for my childhood. Everything about the movie still speaks to me. I can identify with feeling alone and being lost and not understanding things and just wanting a friend. I can still feel all those emotions. And it's probably been about 10 years since I've watched the film and today I watched it for the first time and I almost cried. The way our hearts store hope is incredible. The way we can relate to these very individual encounters that occur during childhood is pretty crazy. The fact that I can be more excited about a movie that was made almost 20 years ago that I've seen countless times than the newest releases says a lot about what we hold sacred to our hearts.
Anyways enough of the sappy stuff, I just wish I had a friend like that. Someone outside of the whole system, that just got me. I think that unusual bond that made me believe that anything is possible is what really got me attached.
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