The movie "UP" (don't let your dreams die...)

The synopsis for Up reads something like this: “By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn’t alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip.”

The opening of this movie is nothing short of magical. It shows us Carl (the main character) as a young boy who loves and dreams of adventure. He meets a young girl who shares his imagination and the movie then, mostly without dialog, goes on to tell the story of how they fell in love, married and shared a wonderful life together, a life where the two always dreamed of going on an adventure, an adventure they never got to share due to his wife passing away. I just can not put into words how beautifully this entire part of the story was told. So touching, so real, so happy and so sad.

Watching this movie, I can’t help thinking of my own dreams. Carl had his dreams paced on the walls, on their DREAM Book. Ah, how important it is!

Our mind get weary, our vision get blurred at times. Life’s pressure sometimes can get us so down that we loose sight of our dreams. It was said, “Write this.Write what you see.Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run…”

Writing down our DREAMS and make it visual is very important.

People says, ‘Time flies…’. Yes, it does. Before you know it, you’ll get old like Carl and you’ve spent most of your time leaving in the comfort zone, neglecting all the dreams you once had when you are young. Not that the comfort zone is not good enough. But as John Maxwell said it, the good can be the enemy of the best out there. As we reach out, step out, suddenly we’ll find out all the potentials we never knew exist from within us. All the creativity, the ideas, the talents and skills…all that were invested by God as He formed us in our mother’s womb.

Up is perfect. I have no other way to put it. Thoroughly entertaining, extremely touching, brilliantly animated, hilariously funny, excitingly adventurous and flawlessly told.

Overall, it spoke a personal message to me…Dreams can come through, no matter how old you finally see it manifested, as long as you pursue it with all of your heart.