I’ve accepted that it’s the holidays now. But they also had Christmas music playing too! 😂
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0The Four Quadrants of Anna’s Heart
what is the heart made of? well, @itspileofgoodthings tagged me to answer that question, saying:
“If you had to categorize your heart into four quadrants, what would each one hold? The idea isn’t that you ONLY love four things. The idea is what things—books, movies, music, plays, poets, pieces of media etc.—are deeply important to you and represent something foundational for you?” (via @itspileofgoodthings)
After much deliberation, I settled on the following four quadrants:
Christmas
Technically not a piece of media, but something that is fully immersed IN our media, Christmas is the Saturday night of the year, followed by New Year’s Eve, the Sunday, and then New Year’s Day, the Monday. As such, I look forward to Christmas the same way I look forward to Saturday: a day of celebration and respite. It’s a balm to my soul, with its music, its history and meaning, and the warmth that pervades it even in the coldest parts of the world where it is celebrated. It’s a yearround source of comfort for me and is always in my heart.
Classic Disney animated films
These too are an endless source of comfort for me and have been since childhood. They are nostalgic but for good reason: the stories they tell are magical, yes, but particularly in how separated they are from the cynicism of the world. Surrounded as we are by troubles and trials, these movies are something I find myself turning to for comfort. They also teach valuable lessons of kindness, bravery, and love (none of which are mutually exclusive terms or traits), lessons that have stuck with me for my entire life.
Harry Potter
You never forget the first book series you fall in love with and the Harry Potter series is that for me. It was an integral part of my childhood and early adolescence and I loved it with a fervor that has never really faded. The characters, the world they inhabit, and the lessons they learn as they traverse that world are ones I will never forget, of friendship and loyalty and bravery and sacrifice, and most importantly, love. For that reason, the Harry Potter series lives in one of the quadrants of my heart and always will.
Star Trek
Hope is a very important aspect of who I am. Emotionally and mentally, it’s like water: without it, I could shrivel up and die. The Star Trek series is one of the greatest examples of hopeful media I know. They’ve envisioned a future where humans travel to the stars through their own ingenuity and brilliance. They learn and they grow and they stumble and they fall but!
they’re still around to do so.
in this universe (no pun intended) humanity has survived. Not only survived but THRIVED.
and for me?
that is ESSENTIAL. it is MIRACULOUS. it is M A R V E L O U S.
Sometimes the future seems bleak, especially now, but I know it will get better. And fictional series though it is, Star Trek supports that. It represents something foundational about the human spirit. Humans are indomitable. We are resilient. We
boldlygo where no one has gone before. That’s just who we are. Is it scary? A seemingly endless dark and vast space into which we are journeying?Also yes.
But we are such stuff as dreams are made on, you guys. We’re the source material for these stories.
That’s gotta count for something.
And it does for me. That’s why it holds such a special place in my heart, because it reminds me not only of who I am but of who I can become.
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