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Title: Friends Never Say Goodbye
Artist: Road to El Dorado, 2000
Everyone needs a partner in crime. Someone to share the journey of life with. In the movie, “Road to El Dorado”, Tulio and Miguel are the main protagonists. They have been best friends since childhood, and cannot imagine life without the other. In the beginning of the movie, Tulio and Miguel stumble upon a map, to the City of Gold, El Dorado. On a journey to the City of Gold, they are mistaken for gods by the locals. While Tulio wants to go back to Spain with the riches he has acquired, Miguel wants to stay back and live with the kind people of El Dorado. Torn between decisions, they decide to go their separate ways. The song, “Friends Never Say Goodbye”, sung by Elton John, is played. This song is used to symbolize their long lasting bond being severed. This song resonates with my relationship with my partner in crime, Hannah. We have known each other since 2008 (Grade 3). She was new to my school, so I decided to play with her on the first day of school. Ever since that day, we were inseparable. We would do everything together; reading buddies, group projects, sleepovers. The fun was endless. Unfortunately, all goods things have to come to an end. In Grade 5, our friendship was severed. Our constant bickering led to arguments and many broken hearts. Since then, we went our separate ways, and made new friends. We still had classes together, but never talked. This went on until Grade 8, when she and I started to get to know each other a bit better. By Grade 9, we were already reminiscing about all the good times we had as children. We started to hang out together, and soon, we were just as inseparable as 14-year-olds as we were as 7-year-olds. We spent the majority of high school together. We got to see how much we had in common, and made peace over our 4 year old hatred for one another. Now that we are in Grade 12, I consider her my best friend. I do have other friends, but none mean as dearly to me as Hannah. One of the lyrics in the song, “There isn't much I haven't shared, with you along the road. And through it all there'd always be tomorrow's episode” resembles the closeness that Hannah and I have. We are always there for one another. She gets me, all of me. My weird sense of sarcasm/humor, my inappropriate jokes, my Miraculous and Disney obsessions. While we do have a lot in common, for instance, a passion for all things Disney and animation, Pewdiepie, and a strange sense of humor, we are also different. Just like Tulio and Miguel, we have our own goals and motives. A lyric from the song, “Suddenly that isn't true, there's another avenue. Beckoning the great divide..” symbolizes our difference in future plans. While I want to stay and study in Guelph, then possibly go back to Europe, Hannah wants to go off to P.E.I for university. The reality that our childhood is slipping from us has brought it to my attention that we won’t be partners in crime forever. Tulio and Miguel realized that when they got to experience El Dorado. They realized how different they are from one another, and that they cannot do everything together. It will be extremely hard to see Hannah leave, for she is essentially my other half. The sadness in Miguel’s eyes when Tulio leaves is exactly how I’ll feel when Hannah goes off to P.E.I. But just as Tulio and Miguel were reunited by the end of the movie, hopefully in the near future, Hannah and I can look back as full grown adults, and understand that friends really never say goodbye.
My Seventh Birthday Party-2008
Grade 9-2015
Grade 10-2017
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Title: Seventeen
Artist: Heathers: The Musical, 2014
Sung by: Barrett Wilbert Weed & Ryan McCartan
Released in 2014, “Heathers” is a black comedy/Broadway musical about a girl named Vanessa, whose boyfriend, D.J, purposefully kills the popular girls at school, the Heathers, for revenge. Discovering his plan, Vanessa tries to persuade him to drop the act, and just be a normal seventeen-year-old. While I have never murdered anyone, I do resonate with the song’s message. Growing up is difficult, and trying to figure out who you are brings along several challenges in itself. The lyrics, “Fine, we’re damaged, really damaged. But that does not make us special” reminds me of the complicated feelings I’ve dealt with during my adolescence years. I have faced regular high school drama, the pressure of good marks, becoming a woman, and learning how to become an adult (I’m currently still on that). While I may feel overwhelmed about this whole change, I can remember that I am only 16 (I am turning 17 in November). The lyrics, “Let’s be normal...can’t we be seventeen?” resonates with the longing of slowing down my face paced life, and just enjoy being a teenager. With university applications, the stress of Grade 12, and growing up, life seems extremely intimidating. I always knew I had to grow up, but when the time actually came, I felt as though I my childhood was rushed. I wish I can just slow down and enjoy being 17, being young, and holding on to that last shred of my childhood. The lyric, “If we still got the right...” is exactly how I feel about my life. Why can’t I just sit back and appreciate where I am right now, instead of worrying about my future? The pressure of figuring out who I am and who I want to be makes me feel isolated and overwhelmed. I miss the old days where all I had to worry about was what I was going to wear to school. Seventeen is such a delicate and overwhelming part of a person’s life. While I am excited about growing up, I wish it didn’t have to be so intense.
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Title: Good Company
Artist: Disney’s Oliver and Company, 1988
If my childhood could be described in one word, it would be Disney. My father is a huge Disney fan, and he got me into watching their movies at a very young age. This movie, “Oliver and Company”, is by far his favorite Disney movie, because it’s a rendition of one of my father’s favorite musicals, Oliver Twist. From a young age, this song from the movie made me burst into tears. The sweet, innocent relationship between Jennifer (the little girl) and Oliver was something I always wished for. During the summer of 2011, my wish came true. I got my very first pet (besides having a fish in the past. RIP Daffodil). It was a beautiful, fluffy guinea pig. The moment I first held her, I knew that we were going to be inseparable. I named her Lettuce, after my favourite children’s story book. As our relationship progressed, she became my pet partner in crime. We did everything together, played dolls, sang, bothered my brother, sang, went outside, sang (I sang a lot as a child, I still do!). As the years went on, and as I grew up, Lettuce was still a piece of my childhood that I could never forget. Just like Jennifer and Oliver, we are inseparable. When Jennifer and Oliver spent their entire day at the park together, it reminds me of all the good times I had with Lettuce, sitting outside enjoying the sun, whilst she chews on the lawn. I did have another guinea pig, Yoshi, but she was my brother’s pet (she passed away in October 2015). When I hold Lettuce, she knows it’s me. She licks my fingers, arms, neck, even my face; as a sign of affection. She does this to no one else, not even my mom (who also cares for her). Lettuce has been with me through thick and thin. She was there when I got my first pair of glasses. She was there when I was friendless. She was there when I first started High School. She was there when I went to my first REAL dance. She was there when I was diagnosed with GAD and OCD. And hopefully, she’ll be with me at Prom and Graduation. Unfortunately, all good things have to come to an end. A guinea pig’s life expectancy is 5-8 years, and Lettuce is 7 1/2 years old. She has developed a giant cyst on her side, her hair is falling out, her vision is becoming impaired, and she sleeps throughout the day. I don’t spend as much time with her anymore, for she is frail and unwilling to leave her cage for too long. The little moments I get with her, such as cleaning her cage, or feeding her in the morning, gives me that sense of connection that we had when we were little. Even though my baby (that’s what I like to call her) is aging faster then I am, I know that deep within her heart, she loves me as much as I love her. No matter what happens, Lettuce will always be good company.
(Lettuce and I in 2015. I am 13 years old, and Lettuce was 4 1/2.)
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Title: Suddenly (Hungarian version)
Artist: Help I’ma Fish
Released in 2000 by a Danish-German-Irish animation group, “Help, Ima Fish!” follows the adventure of three children who are accidentally turned into fish by a mad scientist. On a search to find the anti-fish potion and become human again, the three kids, Fly, Stella, and Chuck are faced with grave obstacles, such as an evil fish (voiced by Alan Rickman) who wants to steal the anti-fish potion from them and become human himself. The clip above features the song “Suddenly”, translated for the Hungarian dub. When I lived in Serbia, my parents owned a cassette version of the movie. Being 3 years old, I couldn’t quite grasp the concept of the movie, but one thing that always got me watching was the music. Roughly translated back into English (for your convenience), the song is basically about the magic of being able to experience life underwater. While there is the great threat of them not returning home, this song resembles that while their situation is bleak, they can still enjoy the wonders of ocean life. I would dance awkwardly and babble to the music sequence. This movie is one of the few distinct memories I have of home. Now that I’ve lived in Canada for over 14 years, being able to look back and watch the movie again in Hungarian makes me feel happy, and homesick at the same time. Even though this movie was originally released in English, I can only watch it in Hungarian. It’s one of the few things I still have from my life back home (besides my name and the food my mom cooks). Watching home videos of my brother Aron and I dancing to this song fills me with bittersweet memories. I do wish I remember more about my life in Serbia, but this scene sort of alleviates that hole in my heart. There is no way to describe that feeling, expect when you have that nostalgic realization that this was a huge part of your life, and returning to it makes you feel whole again.
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