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Green Room - Week 7 - Weekend Edition
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clauderainsrmMy Disney pass expires today.
For people who don't care about such things, just think about something you DO care about, have a deep emotional connection with, and now imagine that it's ending.
It's not the first time that my pass has expired. I've gone through times without it. We've had passes and then went and did other cool things when we didn't have them. Then, a couple years go by and we decide to get them again.
This is the first time though that my family's burn out is such that they "never want to go again".
That's probably talking in the moment, after all, in a couple years, the parks are going to be really different. Which is another part of what makes me sad. 2021 is going to be WDW's 50th anniversary. The vast majority of the current and coming construction is going to be completed by then. There are going to be several new rides, a new transportation system, a couple new resorts, and in one case, a whole new "land" (section of the park - the Star Wars land!) This is one of the biggest overhauls in park history.
Before I was born, my Mom took a trip down, from where we lived in Ohio, with her sister and then stopped at the roadside promotional office for WDW. They were really excited by it, and decided right then and there that they would be back for the opening of the park.
A year or so longer and my Mom wasn't able to keep that promise - she was having me. I was born 3 days before the Magic Kingdom opened.
It took almost 4 before we were able to come down. There are still flashes of memory of that visit, but there is more. Life wasn't great elsewhere - but it was great there. Somewhere whatever magic held everything together imprinted itself inside of me. My next trip was with my father and his second wife, with her kids - for their honeymoon. I was 8. I mention this because 4 years had passed. 4 really bad years. I didn't need a map. I was telling them how to get around the park and walking about like I had been there the day before, like I lived there. Not just general directions either, I had detailed knowledge of it.
So, as excited as I am for the changes, I'm also nervous. Because I'm going to be able to come back - at some point. (barring any unexpected happening to me) But it's going to be a different place. It's the whole "you can't go home again", only this time it feels real.
2021 is only a few years away. But it also matches up to Celena's high school graduation. If she ends up going to college elsewhere, there is a solid chance that we might end up moving wherever that happens to be. So, even with my "big birthday" is the not so far off window, there's a shot that maybe we *won't* be going back... I try not to think about it.
I know it's one of the biggest first world problems of all time - and that I've gotten to experience something that people from all over the world save up for and dream about experiencing once in their lives. I've gotten to do that because my Mom moved us to Florida, to be close to Disney - and because of being residents we don't have all those extra expenses, and can pay for the passes a little bit every month rather than in one huge expenditure. So yeah, I know that, on World Aids Day, that there are a lot worse things in the world. But this is the one on my mind right at this moment.
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Also on my mind today is the Idol poll: https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1016945.html which needs more love. So hopefully you are telling folks about it. This can not happen without that element. Readers don't appear out of nowhere, and they are the ones who make the decisions.
For people who don't care about such things, just think about something you DO care about, have a deep emotional connection with, and now imagine that it's ending.
It's not the first time that my pass has expired. I've gone through times without it. We've had passes and then went and did other cool things when we didn't have them. Then, a couple years go by and we decide to get them again.
This is the first time though that my family's burn out is such that they "never want to go again".
That's probably talking in the moment, after all, in a couple years, the parks are going to be really different. Which is another part of what makes me sad. 2021 is going to be WDW's 50th anniversary. The vast majority of the current and coming construction is going to be completed by then. There are going to be several new rides, a new transportation system, a couple new resorts, and in one case, a whole new "land" (section of the park - the Star Wars land!) This is one of the biggest overhauls in park history.
Before I was born, my Mom took a trip down, from where we lived in Ohio, with her sister and then stopped at the roadside promotional office for WDW. They were really excited by it, and decided right then and there that they would be back for the opening of the park.
A year or so longer and my Mom wasn't able to keep that promise - she was having me. I was born 3 days before the Magic Kingdom opened.
It took almost 4 before we were able to come down. There are still flashes of memory of that visit, but there is more. Life wasn't great elsewhere - but it was great there. Somewhere whatever magic held everything together imprinted itself inside of me. My next trip was with my father and his second wife, with her kids - for their honeymoon. I was 8. I mention this because 4 years had passed. 4 really bad years. I didn't need a map. I was telling them how to get around the park and walking about like I had been there the day before, like I lived there. Not just general directions either, I had detailed knowledge of it.
So, as excited as I am for the changes, I'm also nervous. Because I'm going to be able to come back - at some point. (barring any unexpected happening to me) But it's going to be a different place. It's the whole "you can't go home again", only this time it feels real.
2021 is only a few years away. But it also matches up to Celena's high school graduation. If she ends up going to college elsewhere, there is a solid chance that we might end up moving wherever that happens to be. So, even with my "big birthday" is the not so far off window, there's a shot that maybe we *won't* be going back... I try not to think about it.
I know it's one of the biggest first world problems of all time - and that I've gotten to experience something that people from all over the world save up for and dream about experiencing once in their lives. I've gotten to do that because my Mom moved us to Florida, to be close to Disney - and because of being residents we don't have all those extra expenses, and can pay for the passes a little bit every month rather than in one huge expenditure. So yeah, I know that, on World Aids Day, that there are a lot worse things in the world. But this is the one on my mind right at this moment.
***
Also on my mind today is the Idol poll: https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1016945.html which needs more love. So hopefully you are telling folks about it. This can not happen without that element. Readers don't appear out of nowhere, and they are the ones who make the decisions.
