The perils of being born 40 years old, I suppose.Īgain, I’m not sure there is a video game I enjoy more now that I am an adult, compared to when I was a child. I cry a little more at movies now, especially when it comes to father/daughter scenes, but otherwise the movies I watched when I was little have not gained any special meaning as an adult.
INKLING GIRL GROWN UP MOVIE
I can’t say that my relationship with a particular movie has changed too dramatically, and I haven’t had some sort of profound revelation as to a previous reaction to a movie. Re-reading the books is the experience of an adult remember her childhood, not that of a child knocking on her friend’s door in excited anticipation.Īnd I wouldn’t give that up for anything. The intensity with which I threw myself at the world of magic has faded lovingly into happy memories that I will always enjoy. Now, they read like photo albums of my past, reminding me of the great fun I used to have with my friends. And I don’t love them less, or more, than I did before. I still thumb through the Harry Potter books, the same as I meander through favorite games and rewatch favorite movies. If I read the fifth book again, it would be much different now that I was no longer the same 14-ish year old I was when it was released. It was like moving to university, promising to stay friends with your high school friends because you don’t want to imagine a world without them, except in this case I knew there would be no visits. My life would continue, and it would continue apart from the three people who had been by my side when no one else was.
INKLING GIRL GROWN UP SERIES
I was sad when the seventh book ended, partly because the series was over and it had been such a big part of my life, but also partly because it was the end of so many eras: I was an adult now, and had IRL friends and activities. I wouldn’t have had a place to pretend I was, I wouldn’t have had a place I could escape to, thinking up marvelous adventures I would go on with Harry and his – my – friends. Rowling, I would want to thank her, because without her I wouldn’t have had any friends at all growing up. Looking back, I see what a lifesaver that series was. The time between books had me missing the characters, and as it happened I would up “growing up” alongside Hermione, Harry, and Ron, coming of age around the same time the final book was released. I can’t describe to you the feeling of seeing imaginary characters as friends, but I looked forward to each book in the same way that other people, I imagine, looked forward to visiting and hanging out with their friends. I was 12 years old when I read the first three books, and I was instantly hooked. While I read The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, the series that grabbed me was, not surprisingly, the Harry Potter series.
INKLING GIRL GROWN UP FULL
My first love was The Chronicles of Narnia, and I used to wish there was a magical world beyond the closet door that was full of adventure and where I could be someone that I wasn’t. Like Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, I felt very alone, and so turned to books and book characters as my friends. I had a chronic illness and missed school a lot, and was often too sick to have hobbies outside of the house, and as my mom worked and my siblings are older (and went to school), I spent time either with my dad or by myself. Let’s take a few art modalities that come to mind and discuss. But one thing I will say is that I love these works of art perhaps differently than I did when I was younger.
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This is most likely because the things that I loved back then and still love now… well it is usually for the same reason. On my drive to work for the past week or so, I’ve been methodically going through books, movies, and games in my head that I enjoyed as a younger person and still enjoy now, and then sorting through if my enjoyment had actually increased as years have passed.
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I wracked my brain for days for this question… and I mean that literally. “What is a work of art (book, film, video game, written work, visual art, etc) that you liked when you were younger, but enjoy even more now in the light of additional knowledge and experience?” Our prompt, which was extended to a few other bloggers and to anyone who reads the post, is as follows: Recently, AmbiGaming was invited to take part in the Inklingsseries from Normal Happenings.