Up: Love Story..........

I remember sitting in the cinema thinking this was going to be usual 'Kids' Club' fare.....a fast-paced, witty and very well-observed Pixar offering....and then the whole cinema went unusually quiet as this sequence played out. Why did it resonate so....? I think we all have adventures and dreams in our heart and whether we like to admit it (to anybody else or indeed ourselves) or not we want to share them with someone special. Trouble is, life tends to get in the way and then it is too late, as the realisation dawns that our time on this planet is finite. I think there are two messages to take from  this clip: the first is an echo of the small banner my mother has up in the living room of her house..'Don't count the days...make the days count'. The second, and perhaps more important, is to remember to find and recognise adventure in the everyday, the apparently mundane, because often it is  there that true contentment actually lies.