There's Some Things Money Can't Buy...

Jul 28, 2007 00:24


I recently finished watching a 1990 anime series called "Daddy Long Legs."  It's based on a 1912 novel by Jean Webster with the same name.  Turns out the novel's been made into movie several times already, and the first one was probably the 1919 movie with Mary Pickford, America's sweetheart (who was actually born in Canada).

Okay, so what about this anime can connect with the famous line from MasterCard commercials?  This requires a very brief synopsis of the story: Judy Abbott is an orphan who one day gets sponsored to school by an anonymous man whom she calls Daddy Long Legs, and in the process she teaches rich people to value things like family, friendship, and romance while learning the same values herself.  There is an underlying theme that runs through the entire anime, which is her "hideous" background as an orphan and how it conflicts with her "supposed" status going to a prestigious school and parties.  This conflicting idea of needing money and yet not wanting people to pity her arise in many episodes, and she would teach these rich people to understand that "there's some things money can't buy."  In the process, I've been reminded of this fact as well.

I see before my eyes many things precious, but the things I treasure the most are the things that money can't buy.  There's definitely many treasures that originally were bought, like my teddy bear, but after 10 years of taking it on my travels to nearby cities or foreign countries, I've accumulated a whole album of her pictures proof of her importance.  The pictures of myself are also precious, and although some of them can be quite embarassing, I think I would regret not taking them because that would mean less laughing later in life.  People nowadays, I'm not sure if they value the same things anymore.  Stuff tends to break easier and faster, which means that we usually throw things out and get new stuff.  We've become a nation of waste.  Is this really the path we want to walk on?
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