Thank you Disney
This is a “happy blog”; a blog in which Andy, Dirk, Stefan , Simon and all the rest of us write about our love for Disney, our love for entertainment, our passion for all things “Disney” and in which we all appreciate the way in which this passion (insane one, according to some) allows us to find new friends most often not even close , physically speaking, to us. Today I realised even more the effect Disney has on me! You see this morning I was woken up by one of those phonecalls which you never want to recieve; a school friend of mine died this saturday night of breast cancer at the always too young age of 30! I knew her since kindergarden and shared every school year from todler age to high school with her. Obviously due to university and life you tend to loose some day to day relationship but every time I saw her I couldn’t help but think what a blossoming flower of passion and life Laura was! It obviously hurts to know that someone which you shared so much with is no longer here; but I am pretty sure that from up there she would be thinking that all of our lifes need to go on and that if she taught us something this is to always smile and to face life (and death) in a clear way: head on and with a clean soul. Well, as you can imagine I was pretty much in the dumps today. As ridiculous as it seems Disney helped me out! This weekend the Italian press office, just like many other DLRP marketing offices, had organised the Xmas season press event! For my country one of the main events was having the most heard Italian radio play live from plaza gardens its sunday program running from 14 pm to 17 pm! Well hearing the DJ’s talk about there Disney experience, talk about how wonderful inspiring the park was, how the enchanted xmas ceremony brought shivers down there spines and all the rest of the wonderful sensations I (and you I guess) get everytime we are there allowed me to distract from my loss and smile!The work done by everybody in Paris, and by local people (such as my friends over here in the Milan offices) has the power not only to make dreams come true but most of all, how Walt would have most probably said to allow for the real world to stay outside those gates and for a few hours (moments for me…and at a physical distance) leave all your worries behind. Thank you Walt, thank you Disney Cast members, with all your work you have once again allowed someone to still think that there is a little bit of hope left in this world. Walt would be proud, and my friend Laura would be smiling
December 5th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
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