I have to admit, sometime before my '5 years of silence' of no longer using this blog, I did also feel like Princess Vanellope does in this movie when she 'lost her game' (not going to explain too much to avoid 'spoilers'). There was some stuff I likewise felt was 'going wrong' with my life, so I can very much relate to Penelope's feelings in the movie when she 'had to leave her game'. At the time in my life, there was kind of an element also of 'my world will come crashing down' for me as well; and around the time I started blogging again, I did somewhat feel 'rebooted', not only because I was in a new environment for the most part, but during the ending of 2017, I felt I was having a 'spiritual revival' and I make mention to that here as well: https://life-of-agent-k.blogspot.com/2018/07/8-down-but-not-dead-8-sh.html
Funny thing is at the beginning of 2011, something happened one night alone with nobody and nothing else present other than a Television and old school VCR that I had decided to watch a little bit of the video-tape available and it was the Mulan movie and it was close to this scene so I stayed for a bit till the end of the Reflection song which is my favorite song of the movie. This scene was also featured in the movie, as I will now like to switch the gear back to how the narrative of the movie might have been Used to speak into parallels of my own life as well.
There was another funny thing that happened earlier today (December 10th) when I went to the gym. I started out the day praying that God will guide me throughout the day, whether it be through His word, or circumstances and maybe even trout a dream when I end this day. So when I was at the gym, I saw this blonde person who looked kind of of what would be a similar statue of the character Calhoun from the Heroes’ Duty Game who ends up as Fix It Felix’s wife of 6 years in the second movie. So if I am meant to relate to Vanellope through various themes in the movie, another thing that might be relevant is the entire 'gender reversal' in terms of roles. Like Vanellope is a girl who drives and I'm a male, also when the character Shank says 'Shank you', it reminded me a lot of when 'Harvey Dent' [https://life-of-agent-k.blogspot.com/2008/12/dark-k.html]'s slang he used to use 'spank you'. The movie also had this idea that a car was one of 'the most sought after items' and those who knew me in my younger days likewise knows that the car I was most associated to at the time, which I have referred to it in several entries as 'the faith mobile' was basically 'the love of my life' at the time. I think the main reason for this is because 'the car would never leave me' and it wasn't common for some guys of my time to have a car being referred to as their 'wife' or they personally would refer to their car as their 'wife'. For me personally, I feel the best part of the relationship I had with the car was, I was 'able to get out what I put in', the car served me well and I felt that all the time and money I put into maintaining that car paid back dividends.