Wreck-It Ralph!

So I recently watched the movie Wreck-It Ralph. It is such a cute movie! And it has so many good things in it. For my quote this week I chose to do one between Ralph and Vanellope. Ralph is giving a sort of pep talk to Vanellope about her racing. He says:

Wreck-it Ralph: You're a winner!

Vanellope von Schweetz: I'm a winner...

Wreck-it Ralph: And you're adorable!
Vanellope von Schweetz: I'm ADORABLE!

This quote at first glance was just like any of the other quotes in this movie but upon further inspection I found the possibility for a much bigger story. I saw a pep talk in the lines of this movie. The world today is all rush, rush, rush. Stress, pressure, conflict, despair, standards, and so much more.

In the first part of this quote Ralph is telling Vanellope that she is a winner. We are all winners. There is a winner in every one of us! We all put so much pressure on ourselves in school, home or silly things like fashion. We worry, we stress ourselves, we freak out, break down and cry. We don’t see all the things that are going well for us because of all the things that we HAVE done. When we stop and think about all the things that we have already accomplished, we can realize amazing things. We are all on track to graduate after 13 years of school. Many of us have already received acceptance letters to the second parts of our lives. We are valedictorians and salutatorians. Brothers and sisters. Aunts and uncles. We have accomplished so much just by being. We have all done something that has made us winners!

The second part of this quote is Ralph telling Vanellope that she is adorable. A similar quote came to me when I thought about what this quote could mean on a deeper level.

“Make-up wasn’t invented and used like it is today until the early 1900’s and men still fell in love with the women in the world.”

It doesn’t matter how much make-up you put on, we are all beautiful. But it’s more than just that. We are all important to someone. We are someone’s little girl, mother, cousin, or best friend. We all have that one person out there that is going to see us for who we are no matter how much L’Oreal has helped us out today. They’ll see through all that and still see that beautiful person that means so much to them. Society has given us the image of tall, slim and beautiful people. Designer clothes, soft hair, and smooth skin. They have deluded us into a materialistic beauty, one that focuses on the outside and the shell. Not the inside that means the world.

So all in all we are honestly all winners and we have to remember that we have done good in the world and that we shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves. But not only that we ALWAYS have to remember that we are all adorable too. We mean so much to the people around us that it would terrify those around us, who love us, if we weren’t there.

Thanks for reading! Leave a comment for movie ideas!