▲Childhood Reawakened◄

It had been a long time since I got overwhelmed by a motion picture, forgetting about everything else and just living the moment of every fraction, every scene; waiting anxiously for the next one.

With a mix of emotions, trying to understand what I was feeling and putting aside "the real world", I remembered what it was like to let my imagination fly and lose myself in a movie, without questioning anything.

I was at the edge of my seat, I laughed and yes, I cried.

I felt like a kid.

I believed. Blindly.

When it was over, I felt like everything I saw actually happened. I could not believe, or should I say, accept certain events, sad events that happened in the movie. I was in denial but I know  that sooner or later I will have to accept it and learn to live with it; just like "in real life".

I know it may sound ridiculous to others but that's the impact movies had on me when I was a kid, the feeling I fell in love with. I was lucky to be surrounded by loved ones then, just like the other day, December 17th 2015.

I grew up watching Star Wars. It's part of my life. It's more than just a movie. Their characters are like "real people" to me that I will cherish. Always.

It was nice to know that other people connected with those movies, and better yet, one of them actually got to direct one. I could feel the love and respect of the people who made the movie. The energy that was injected in the film, connected living things around the planet, just like the force.

I know this feeling most likely will disappear. It has happened before but for the moment, I want to hold it as long as I can. For the moment, I don't want to grow up.

Indeed, there was an awakening, and not just in the movie.

;D