Up, Up, Up & Away

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In the Disney animation, Up, Carl and Ellie's love story is just classic... I used to dream I'd find love the same way - you know,  meet the love of your life when you're kids, get married, and grow old together. It didn't happen like that, but that's life...
we plan and plan, and strategize, but sometimes it just isn't meant to work out in that sequence.

Oh, but I cried when Ellie died, leaving Carl with all the memories of the life they shared together and most especially the dream to have their house on Paradise Falls. Eventually, they had to let go of that dream after saving innumerable times for it, yet always having to abort their mission because of various urgent needs such as house repairs, health emergencies, etc. Finally old age came on, and it just wasn't going to be possible anymore, but they were still very much in love with each other in spite of everything.

After Ellie's death, and being sentenced to a retirement home, old man Carl decides to finally make their dream a reality, and it's off to Paradise Falls with the aid of helium-filled balloons.

If only he'd taken the time to flip a few more pages in Ellie's My Life of Adventure Book, old man Carl would have realised that Ellie had let go off that life of adventure, because she had already found it being married to him, and maybe then, he'd have realized that he had another chance to give a life of adventure to Russell - ok, so if he had done that, we wouldn't have a story to watch anyway, but still....Russell got a life of adventure on the long run though.

Russell & Carl (image: http://www.3dm3.com)

 
Often times, we set goals - who we want to be, where we want to be, how we want to get there; we analyze and project, study and assess all the dynamics necessary to get those achievements in record time.

Along the line, changes may occur in the sequence of events, destabilizing us and we react - get depressed, give up, or pick up and try to do everything all over again in the same order. Sometimes it helps to actually start all over on a different route, perhaps there is another lesson we ought to learn, another life (or lives) we are meant to touch, or simply find the missing piece of a puzzle.