Cruel Irony: Disney's Animated Adaptation Of Treasure Planet

When I was eight, I learned just how cruel irony can be. From a young age, I had always been interested in space. In fact, one of my earliest memories is watching Disney’s animated adaptation of Treasure Planet. As a four-year-old, it was impossible not to fall in love with a movie about pirates in space, and the movie influenced what I wanted to do in life. After that, whenever I was asked what I wanted to do when I grew up, I would say I wanted to be an astronaut. However, the challenges life throws at you, do not always make it possible to follow your dreams. Discovering that I had severe motion sickness dashed my hopes of becoming an astronaut, but it did not change my motivation. When I was eight, I went to the fair in my hometown, and there I learned that because of how severe my motion sickness was, that I wouldn’t be able to become an astronaut. I couldn’t go on any of the rides with my friends. They joked about how I couldn’t go to space if I couldn’t even ride a Ferris wheel. While I know they weren’t being malicious, this still hit me hard. I began to keep track of everything that made me sick. Airplanes, cars, the bus, trains, and boats all made me nauseous. However, learning and accepting were
I realized that what I wanted wasn’t to be an astronaut, but discovery. My love for Treasure Island, wasn’t because it was about space, but because of its themes of adventure, exploration, and discovering the unknown. At around the same time, I learned that being an astronaut was not the only way to be involved. I learned about aerospace engineering and more specifically astronautical engineering. If I couldn’t be an astronaut, the second best thing would be to design the rockets. In fact, being an engineer would be even better. A satellite can go much farther than any astronaut could hope to go. Through engineering, I would be able to discover so much more than I could as an