Remember the movies of your childhood? Movies like Back to the Future, Sandlot, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and every Disney movie ever made!

I remember late nights watching old movies I recently bought and making homemade popcorn and cocoa.  Nothing could be better! These were the nights that stuck with me. The nights that I will always remember were spent curled up with a favorite movie, because living in South Jordan, let’s be honest, not much happens. Movies gave you a look into the possibilities of life outside of the suburbs. Places where the outcasts and the underdogs kids were the ones who had it good. Movies made me think of a better future then where we are stuck in our current awkward times of grade school.

I obsessed over movies like Back to the Future. No matter how cliché and cheesy the third movie was, I will always remember Mcfly as my first crush, or possibly, love. And in Sandlot, the lifeguard Wendy being the coolest chick I aspired to be in my life. Just saying. Lord of the Rings was the first sci-fi fantasy movie to hook me for a lifetime. And, of course, the phenomenon that was Harry Potter. Hermione taught me it was cool to be nerdy (maybe only if you’re a witch…). These movies define what went through my mind as a child. It was all the same to me. My honest emotional connection to movies of my childhood is probably an issue that I do need to see a therapist about, but will never let go of it. I love it all too much! I dreamt of traveling to far off places. Disney had me either wishing or dreading falling in love and basically the future altogether.

Honestly, I think we all need a good dose of childhood memories and happiness in this time of stress and dreaded homework (Thanks, high school) so go and watch a movie from your childhood, and feel the magic of childhood joy again.