Advice We Wish We Could Give Our Youngers Selves . . . As Illustrated By Disney
Hindsight is 20/20, which is really unlucky for the younger iterations of ourselves.
That’s why we wish we had given some of this priceless Disney advice to
our younger selves so we could have been saved the agony of broken
hearts, insecurities, long lines, jealousy–you name it.
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew.
Empathy. It’s one of the hardest things to learn as a tot, and some people never really develop it (shout out to Gaston). We wish we could go back in time and tell little us to be patient with others and look beyond our own lives, as everyone faces challenges, and stuff.
Get the FastPass, go on the ride, then go on it again.
Of course we all know this NOW but when FastPasses first came out, do you think we knew how to optimize them? No, we probably didn’t even know to run to our favorite ride first to get the earliest possible FastPass. So many wasted rides on Space Mountain.
Make an entrance.
Who impresses the Prince? Cinderella. When does she show up? Last. Okay, maybe she caught his eye because she was also beautiful, gentle, and sweet, but also maybe it was because she made an entrance, and those get made later in the night. What one thing do you know about the White Rabbit? That’s right: that he’s late. Just saying, it makes a statement. Does this mean we’re advocating lateness? Not necessarily; some can make an entrance and still be timely. Find your own brand of entrance, and work it.
It’s not what is on the outside but what’s inside that counts.
Aladdin gets slightly bummed when everyone keeps calling him riff raff and street rat, but by the end, we all realize he’s really the diamond in the rough. When we were little, we thought only princesses could be princesses, and only princes could be princes, but NOW we know that none of that matters since all your specialness comes from within.
Adventure is out there.
When you’re young, it seems like the world is a giant scary place, and even if you want to get out there and experience it all, the great big out there can be intimidating. But just think what would happen if you DIDN’T get out there and see some things while still in your youth–you’d feel like Carl when he regrets not adventuring with Ellie: sad. We wish we could tell little us to get out there and try new things, even if it is scary at first.
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake.
Okay, hear us out on this one: true, it’s good that Ariel followed her heart and became a human, since that’s what she wanted and all. However, Sebastian does have a point that the grass, err, seaweed is always greener on the other side. Think of all the times little us thought everyone else’s life was better, more fun, easier, etc. People were probably looking at our lives thinking the same thing, just like how while Ariel was wishing for legs, we were wishing we could be mermaids! Boom, point proven.
You can’t do it all in one day.
Remember when you were little and you’d go to the park and you’d totally tucker yourself out by about 2pm because you were going into overdrive trying to go on every ride, see every attraction, and eat every snack all in one day? FOMO (fear of missing out) is real, and only with maturity have we learned that you can’t possibly do everything at Disneyland in one day; you have to prioritize, potentially spread it out, pace yourself, otherwise it’s a big exhausting blur.
Let it go.
This is another one that not everyone learns by the time they’re grown up. Sometimes, the only solution to any problem is to just let. It. Go. Think about it: when you’re little and you have a mosquito bite, you scratch at it, but that only makes it worse. The only thing to do is leave it alone, and then it gets better. Oddly, a lot of life’s perceived problems are the same way. Plus, it worked for Elsa, and she’s pretty cool.
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you’ll learn things you never knew you never knew.
Empathy. It’s one of the hardest things to learn as a tot, and some people never really develop it (shout out to Gaston). We wish we could go back in time and tell little us to be patient with others and look beyond our own lives, as everyone faces challenges, and stuff.
Get the FastPass, go on the ride, then go on it again.
Of course we all know this NOW but when FastPasses first came out, do you think we knew how to optimize them? No, we probably didn’t even know to run to our favorite ride first to get the earliest possible FastPass. So many wasted rides on Space Mountain.
Make an entrance.
Who impresses the Prince? Cinderella. When does she show up? Last. Okay, maybe she caught his eye because she was also beautiful, gentle, and sweet, but also maybe it was because she made an entrance, and those get made later in the night. What one thing do you know about the White Rabbit? That’s right: that he’s late. Just saying, it makes a statement. Does this mean we’re advocating lateness? Not necessarily; some can make an entrance and still be timely. Find your own brand of entrance, and work it.
It’s not what is on the outside but what’s inside that counts.
Aladdin gets slightly bummed when everyone keeps calling him riff raff and street rat, but by the end, we all realize he’s really the diamond in the rough. When we were little, we thought only princesses could be princesses, and only princes could be princes, but NOW we know that none of that matters since all your specialness comes from within.
Adventure is out there.
When you’re young, it seems like the world is a giant scary place, and even if you want to get out there and experience it all, the great big out there can be intimidating. But just think what would happen if you DIDN’T get out there and see some things while still in your youth–you’d feel like Carl when he regrets not adventuring with Ellie: sad. We wish we could tell little us to get out there and try new things, even if it is scary at first.
The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s lake.
Okay, hear us out on this one: true, it’s good that Ariel followed her heart and became a human, since that’s what she wanted and all. However, Sebastian does have a point that the grass, err, seaweed is always greener on the other side. Think of all the times little us thought everyone else’s life was better, more fun, easier, etc. People were probably looking at our lives thinking the same thing, just like how while Ariel was wishing for legs, we were wishing we could be mermaids! Boom, point proven.
You can’t do it all in one day.
Remember when you were little and you’d go to the park and you’d totally tucker yourself out by about 2pm because you were going into overdrive trying to go on every ride, see every attraction, and eat every snack all in one day? FOMO (fear of missing out) is real, and only with maturity have we learned that you can’t possibly do everything at Disneyland in one day; you have to prioritize, potentially spread it out, pace yourself, otherwise it’s a big exhausting blur.
Let it go.
This is another one that not everyone learns by the time they’re grown up. Sometimes, the only solution to any problem is to just let. It. Go. Think about it: when you’re little and you have a mosquito bite, you scratch at it, but that only makes it worse. The only thing to do is leave it alone, and then it gets better. Oddly, a lot of life’s perceived problems are the same way. Plus, it worked for Elsa, and she’s pretty cool.
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