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The Most Magical Place on Earth
One reason why I like the name of it is because it just sounds magical: Disney. There you have a word that expresses one sound:
Magic
In so many ways my life is inspired by the magic of Disney. I feel so uplifted at just the thought of Disney. I feel magnificent after watching a Disney movie. I feel just so pleasingly happy. I would not call it an obsession. I call it magic.
I remember, after looking at pictures in the baby album, of the first time I made a trip to Disneyland. I was 3-years-old and clueless about the animated characters and the magnificent attractions of the park. I would simply follow my mother around sheepishly clutching on her finger as Winnie the Pooh tried to greet me. I followed her into the Haunted Mansion, and to much of my mother’s dismay, the moment “the voice” came on in the elevator I let out a loud wail that did not cease until I saw the light and heard the sounds of the cheerful park again.
For some reason, I continued to return to the park. Every other year my family and I would travel back down to Anaheim, California to visit the illustrious theme park. Every other year I would find something else that would exhilarate me. My eyes would gleam when I saw Peter Pan walking around. My eyes gleamed when the sun would shine so perfectly above the princess castle in Fantasyland. The greasy restaurants made me gleam; the synthetically-cut bushes made me gleam; the smelly ticket booth, smelly from all the people trying to get into Disneyland, made me gleam. Everything in that park made me gleam.
Disneyland always excited me because it was the most direct way that I could feel and empathize with Disney. Disneyland was my closest portal to having Disney as my life. When I watch a Disney movie, I so badly yearn for adventures in the jungle, the sahara, the future, the ocean, the Arabian palace, the streets of New Orleans, in the heavens of London; a talking animal friend; inspirational and orchestral music to crescendo as I stare into the sunset on a cliff above the sea, and someone I love tells me what I need to hear to continue my life
Happily
Ever
After.
When I talk about magic I am talking, quite specifically, about the feeling I feel when I hear, think about, talk about, see something about Disney. And not only that, but I am talking about the connection I feel when I hear, think about, talk about, see something about Disney. I feel a light glow inside my body. I actually feel a light glow. That is how I feel.
And that is what I call, magic.
Writing style inspired by Joan Didion.
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