My Happiest Place On Earth

Walt Disney World

Today is a day I wasn’t certain would ever come, or at least not for a long while. Today the happiest place on earth opens its gates after a few exceptionally difficult months, and I can’t believe there will be people walking down Main Street again. Though I have very mixed feelings on the matter, I must admit that I have longed for this day. For me Walt Disney World is a haven. It is where dreams come true. It is where reality is suspended and magic and imagination takes over, which after how our girl 2020 has been doing thus far, couldn’t feel more important than right now.

The idea that I would never be able to return to a place that has brought my family and loved ones so much joy and had become the backdrop of our favourite memories, was a tough one for me. I must say, I’m pretty good at adapting and accepting the reality of situations placed before me, but that would have been a tough pill to swallow. I mean sure, I would miss music festivals, crowded bars, and music theatre, but Mickey would always be the one I yearned for most of all. Us Disney folk are a weird breed, what can I say.

Now even though it is back up running, I’m not certain when I will have the chance to step back into the Magic Kingdom, wear a pair of ears, or scream my way down Splash Mountain’s final drop. Until then I have discovered that the true happiest place on earth is a lot closer to home than I thought…because it is in fact home. Don’t get me wrong these past few months have been heartbreaking and challenging to say the least, but realizing that everything I needed in this world was under the very roof we were confined to changed it all. We read books, watched movies, played games, made art, but most importantly we did it together and that very fact made this home my new happiest place on earth.

I still so look forward to the day where I get to walk right down the middle of Main Street USA, but until then there’s plenty of magic right here.

Gucci dress, bag, and shoes.