TOY STORY TOYS
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The interesting thing about “last times” is that we generally don’t know it at the time. As we start moving through the sequence of growing up and living through significant passages in time, the process of morphing into a young adult requires leaving behind the things of a dependent child and learning how to become independent. That’s when we begin to discover that all manner of people and life skills have vanished in our wake with new survival instincts and relationships while time moves along. And the process of ignoring, celebrating or grieving “last times” continues until we breathe our last breath.
That certainly explains why humans of all sorts relate and mourn the significant transition that focuses on the “last time” beloved toy friends are lost in time in the movie Toy Story. I actually rediscovered a cigar box that my grandfather had given to me that contained a few childhood memories. The box contained the surviving WWII green soldiers that had fought along side me as we detonated July 4th Black Cat firecrackers in the post war summer sand box so many years ago. I must have placed my summer soldiers in the cigar box for the “last time” once school started and only rediscovered them recently, as I released accumulated things that I no longer used.
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