Thursday, August 14, 2014

Vulnerable

This post is from months ago and is still incomplete, but it is some important stuff to me so I am posting it as is. Maybe I will finish it some day. Such is life.


Everyone can admit that Frozen was a dang good movie. I laughed, I cried and I was inspired. I saw it twice, half as many times all of the 20 year-old males that were polled. There are so many awesome things about this movie that I could talk about, but we all already know them so I will jump to the point. While Idina Menzel's song is a bit rebellious and a tad sinister-sounding, it is inspiring, nonetheless. At a young age Idina Menzel's character, Elsa, had to be something she was not. Her parents encouraged and taught her to hide her most unique quality because, through it, danger had come to her sister. She locks herself in her room and cuts herself off from her best friend, her sister.

Well, cool. Everyone is happy, right? Uh, no. When Else loses control in front of everyone and they realize there is something wrong with her, she flees into the mountains and Arendelle, the beautiful land of eternal summer, becomes a terrible, endless winter suckland. As Elsa climbs the mountain, she sings this beautiful number about being herself. I am just going to give you all the lyrics because they are so dang good.

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight,
Not a footprint to be seen.
A kingdom of isolation
and it looks like I'm the queen.
The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I tried.
Don't let them in, don't let them see.
Be the good girl you always have to be.
Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know.
Well, now they know.
Let it go, let it go.
Can't hold it back anymore.
Let it go, let it go.
Turn away and slam the door.
I don't care what they're going to say.
Let the storm rage on.
The cold never bothered me anyway.
It's funny how some distsance
makes everything seem small
and the fears that once controlled me
can't get to me at all.
It's time to see what I can do,
to test the limits and break through.
No right, no wrong, no rules for me.
I'm free.
Let it go, Let it go.
I am one with the wind and sky.
Let it go, let it go.
You'll never see my cry.
Here I stand and here I'll stay
Let the storm rage on.
My power flurries through the air into the ground.
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
and one thought crystallizes like an icy blast.
I'm never going back.
The past is in the past.
Let it go, let it go
and I'll rise like the break of dawn.
Let it go, let it go.
That perfect girl is gone.
Here I stand
in the light of day.
Let the storm rage on.
The cold never bothered me anyway.


For the purpose of my post you are going to have to look past the humanism, pantheism, and rebellious spirit that is turning you off from this song. Otherwise you will completely miss my point, and that is a waste of everyone's time.

Being honest about who we are, specifically our faults, is probably the most terrifying thing in the world. No one likes to be vulnerable. It's so scary.

At a group discussion we were asked some pretty powerful questions that got me thinking about this even more.


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