Now and Then - Stay Connected

I have been working for the last 3.5 years now. I am an adult. I drive, I go out with friends for drinks. I am a professional when it comes to my work. I know what I want and work towards achieving my goals. I have dreams and aspirations. I am a person who thinks logically and rationally, or so I'd like to believe. However, I wasn't always like this. A lot has changed about me since I was a child. So how was I any different from what I am now?

In every woman there is a little girl that she leaves behind as she grows up. I am no different from any one of them. Just like any other girl, I too had my dreams and fallacies. I was carefree, a feeling that I haven't experienced in a long time now. As I was growing up, there was this movie that played an important role in my adolescent years - Now and Then. It's about four twelve year old girls and a summer when they get involved in investigating a local mystery. Both happy and unfortunate events occur. These four friends make a pact, when they were younger, that if one of them ever needed each other they would be there. Now and Then used to be my favorite movie when I was younger and it still remains one of my favorites. This movie is absolutely wonderful, even now I could watch the movie all over again. It puts me in such a great mood. It makes me think that real friends do exist.

I was inspired by this movie in ways more than one. I still remember how I would cycle my way around the whole block from dawn to dusk during my summer vacations. It changed the way I thought and also my outlook towards things. As you are growing up, you tend to pick up a habit or a trait from everything around you. It could be actual people, a sitcom or a movie. All or any of it. It makes you who you are in today's world. I know I am one such person, a combination of many such things. Without them I wouldn't really be the person that I am today. And it's a good feeling when you relate to those things after all this time. 'Now and Then' reminds me of the times back THEN and then I see the NOW which is in front of me.