It's been a little over a week now since "Finding Dory" hit the theater screens. The world had high expectations for this film, anxiously awaiting a once-rumored sequel to the classic "Finding Nemo." Typically when you see animated previews and movie posters, you automatically deem it a "kids" movie and will probably not think twice about seeing it. So what makes this Disney-Pixar gem different?

The classic "Finding Nemo" was released on May 30, 2003. This means most of us 90s kids were still less than 10 years old when we saw the movie for the first time. This movie was a staple of our childhood, a classic we grew up with and any child of the 90s had seen.

It has been 13 years since this original was released. For us 90s kids, these 13 years represent an entire aging process. Really think about it. We saw "Finding Nemo," as young kids and now we are young adults as this sequel premiers.

This is why we feel we need to see this movie.

13 years ago, I couldn't have had a serious care in the world. Born in October of 1996, I was only 6 years old when I saw this movie. I remember laughing at the silly jokes, going around school yelling "Shark bait oo ah ah" with my friends, and I can't forget the incorporation of "Noggin! Duuude" in my friends' handshakes. As a kindergartener, I'm pretty sure my worst worry was what Fun Time activity I was going to get to participate in that day at school.

But those 13 years went on. For the first time, I experienced times of stress, worry, competition and expectations. As any middle-schooler, I learned of insecurity, peer pressure, popularity, and self-consciousness. From there, I felt the pangs of death, anxiety about my future, endured drama between friendships and I learned what it means to fall in love.

At 6 years old, you look at the world as an endless playground. The adults around you are kind enough to protect you from the more harsh realities of this world. You just saw the world in a way that can never be taught, or restored once it is gone. At almost 20 years old now, I know I have lost this. Instead, I see the cruelty around the world, the evil that exists, and the heartbreak tragedy brings.

So deep down, I think there is more than is being said when you scroll past a meme joking about how '90s kids are more excited to see "Finding Dory" than little kids. It's true, we've been waiting much longer for this movie — 13 years to be exact. But it's more than that. In my opinion, the underlying reason why we want to see this movie, is because we need to.

We need to have just 2 hours in a dark room to ourselves to pretend to be kids again, to go back to that time where everything was just so much easier. Because eventually, the lights will come back up and we will look around realizing that we aren't kids anymore. We will have to leave our seats and reenter the world we have come to know throughout these 13 years. But for those 2 hours, we can just be kids again.