"Christopher Robin" hands-down wins the award for the cutest movie I've ever seen.
The cutest movie I've ever seen made me cry. I cried in a movie theater while I watched an actor have a conversation with a fake-stuffed bear. In my defense, my friend said she cried too. But nonetheless, a movie I thought would be purely adorable hit a lot closer to home than I thought it would.
The premise of the movie is a working Christopher Robin running into Winnie The Pooh years after his childhood. At this point in time, Robin has gone to boarding school, been in war, gotten married and had a child, and is now working full-time at a luggage company. He's a bit different from the Christopher Robin that used to hang out in the Hundred Acre Wood with all his stuffed friends.
The crying started with one line. Christopher Robin said, "I'm lost." Pooh responded with "But I found you." That was it. That was all I needed to start.
Robin spent almost all of his time working and barely seeing his family. He misses his daughter growing up while he's away because he believes that if he works really hard now life will be better later. The problem is that he's missing the now.
Isn't that exactly what college is sometimes? We get so focused on the life after that we forget to look around and take a second to breathe and enjoy what's around us right now. It's one thing to work hard towards your future, but it's another to put the blinders on and only look ahead.
It took Christopher Robin getting literally lost with Pooh to realize how he felt about his life. This is something that happens to a lot of us. We've all been at low points that make us look around and just realize how messy our lives are. Everyone gets lost and that's okay.
Luckily for Christopher Robin, he had Pooh and friends and his family to get him through everything and make him see what was really important. If there's anything this movie taught me, it's that you have to allow yourself some time off and that a support system is one of the most important things you can have.
Sometimes when you're lost you just need to take a breath and let your people find you again.