Memory And Emotions In Disney's Inside Out

In Disney’s Inside Out, they try to depict the confusing concept of memories and emotions to a young audience. Disney tries to explain these concepts by having a team of emotions controlling their person’s actions via a control panel, so the audience can understand the idea because the emotions are seen as people. The main emotions of Inside Out is joy, sadness, anger, disgust, and fear. Someone at Disney decided that these five emotions are universal to everyone in the movie and for everyone watching the movie. Is that true for me, that those five emotions Disney chose control me and my emotions as well? No. I feel that me and my emotions are more complex than Disney has depicted. I believe that Disney simplified the concept to make the idea
easier to comprehend, but to me as an individual, I don’t fit under Disney’s idea of normalcy. I, like the main character, Riley, are in an important stage in our emotional development.
I slightly farther in my journey than Riley because I’m older than her, but not mentally. I am at the age where I am actually going to start making important decisions that will effect my life, if I like it or not. I believe that the actions I make are based on the constant inner mingling of my emotions. Contrary to Inside Out my main emotions are joy, sadness, anger, nervousness, and humor. I see my emotions as entities working together, but most of the time they’re all talking at the same time, so it’s hard to decipher. That may just have to do with my ADD or my personality, it may depend on the person that you ask, I think of too many things to handle. My main rulers of my emotions are joy and humor. I pride myself on being a really positive person, because I struggled with being absurdly negative for a major part of my childhood. Now that I understand myself better and know how to properly interact with the people around me, I feel like being positive and happy is the best thing for me to be. I also see myself as someone who’s goofy more than mature. I feel like humor is important part of being human, being able to laugh at yourself rather than worrying too much about it is essential to living a good life. That trait may have also been a
product of my upbringing, growing up with two crazy brothers is no easy task. They joked around all the time, I followed suit and it became a major identifier of myself. I try to bring humor into my everyday life and my goal as a artist is to make my audience laugh or smile, from my work. Anger isn’t a main part of me, I don’t get truly angry often, I mostly get frustrated. I tend to loose my patience and then I get frustrated, but anger isn’t what makes me different from everyone else. Sadness and nervousness in my opinion walk hand in hand. In my experience, once I reach a hint of sadness I get absorbed by my insecurities and nerves, that it makes me worry about things that truly don’t matter. This makes me so sad because in that state I only think about my faults and I don’t trust in myself, which I believe makes me more human to have doubts. I’m getting closer to the point when I become a fully fledged adult. I feel like these times reaching to that point are important for my growth, so I become a well-rounded person.