What We Can Learn From 'Frozen' : Seeing on The Beauty

  

What We Can Learn From Frozen : Seeing on The Beauty

            Hans Christian Andersen is a great story-teller I have ever known. Knowing that Frozen is mostly based on one of his masterpiece, Snow Queen, I guarantee that people rate this for almost five stars as a-must-watch-fairytale-animation-movie-2013. Different with the other fairytales he has made, this film is about to say that whether everything you did at the past were right or wrong, you just have to be brave to take steps forward to be free from that shadow then make an unexpected-bloody-good change toward the future.

            Everything related to certain story, has a certain path that everyone clung onto the certain hope. We, as creatures having certain strength that somehow bring us to damage or  it is a key point how to manage that strength to be something everyone loves. As we know that life is about choice. One of favorite quotes from Henry Ford is “whether you can or can’t, you are right”. It reflects a lot about taking decision to be positive or negative. All is about our perception.

            Changing perception is not easy. The one i found from a book Happiness Inside, authored by Gobind Vashdev, leads me to think that life is about how to create harmony in each of our breath: “The one who always choose to see on the beauty actually is a lucky one, he or she doesn’t depend nor blame on the situation”

            In a line with that statement, in the film I just watched, Frozen, the same point appear at the Elsa’s character as the queen of the kingdom that has the magic power to freeze all the things she touch directly. You can read a review about this movie here. From the very beginning, when she was a child, unintentionally, she harmed her sister, by using her inner power and then their parents separate them away in order to protect the younger one from the magic power. One day, they met again and the elder sister, Elsa becomes the queen because their parents has died. The story began when they bandied words about the wedding plan of the younger sister that came up so sudden with a guy she has just met that day. Elsa couldn’t control her anger and used her power unpredictably then everyone there at the kingdom know it and became frightened. She ran away then everything she touched becomes ice and freeze. The sea she walked across became ice then the winter apparently come suddenly unpredictably. 

            Elsa was frightened with her own power. She always think that her power is frightening and people will hate her a lot if they know. Since she was a child, after she harmed her sister, she hid her power and always using gloves to anticipate all the things that might be happened. She tried to abandon her power, deeper and deeper. Until that day, she revealed herself and be the true self of her own without any pressure and created her own kingdom in the north mountain. For years, she felt like in the jail and didn’t feel comfortable with it. Here the song she sang on the film that reflects. Anyway, I love listening to this song.

LET IT GO

Sequence Performed by Idina Menzel

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight Not a foot print 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 are going to say Let the storm rage on The cold never bothered me anyway It’s funny how some distance makes everything seems small. And the fears that once controlled me, can’t get to me at all. Its time to see what I can do.  To test the limit and break through No line no wrong no rules for me I am 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 me 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 When I’ll rise like the break of dawn Let it go. Let it go The perfet girl is gone Here I stand, in the light of day Let the storm rage on The cold never bothered me anyway

           

Back to the story. One day, her sister, Anna, came to Elsa’s kingdom on the North Mountain to pick her up back to the real kingdom to change the season back to the summer like the initial. But then, Elsa still on her own belief that there is something frightening inside her, she is a disaster for that kingdom and there is no reason for coming back to the kingdom. Here, she was still focused on the black clouds she has passed over the years. The silver lining came when her sister sacrificed herself to help her elder sister, Elsa realize that everything is about seeing on the beauty. After all, she could create the kingdom in a full of happiness nuance and lived happily with her younger sister.

Well, there is a simple and meaningful lesson here:

No matter the situation, no matter the strength, no matter the things we’ve been through, the most important thing is seeing on the positive sides, looking deeper and deeper at the beauty, hug our negativity just like friends and we’ll find the harmony :)