Why Disney World?

 

I remember Sunday evenings when I was 10 years old or so, watching Sorpresa y media (A surprise and half) a TV program, as a family ritual, and I just wanted my dream to come true, to go to that far away land...

And watching that other TV program, one by Siembra group (the name I can´t recall, but I do remember that the man who hosted it was named Pancho). He would ask general knowledge questions and the prize was a trip to this place, magical place at least in my head and my friends' who had already been there, and they had collected autographs by Mickey and other characters, in a notebook specially bought there for that purpose.

I used a Mickey wristwatch that my grandparents had brought me as a present, I liked it a lot.

 

Moreover, in the icecreams by Frigor, they made you collect stickers and if you could get all the album ones, you could win THE trip. My friends would help me looking for the ones I was missing, in every package of these stick-icecreams, in the sportfields. You looked through the dustbins, and in this way I got the stickers from the different kingdoms in Disney World that, if I´m not mistaken, they were five. 

Ahhh, and the experience of going to Disney Animation Festival at La Rural with my brothers and cousins, in my uncle´s car. My emotion at seeing how they created and made the animated drawings prevailed over the Minnie and Mickey's show one.

When I was a kid, I wanted to go to Disney. My friends and my family are witnesses of this.

Now I think that Disney was like an American Dream children version, that they made us believe that it was THE place, "where dreams came true". Why would it be so? Because Mickey lived there?

I travelled very little as a child. I think that I just wanted what it implied to take the journey: share moments with ease and feel more freedom, in unknown places discovering wonders.

Some years ago, a friend said to me: "Sooner or later, the masks fall down."

Please, let it happen sooner than later.

Mask or heart? Each one chooses their way, journey, destiny.