The Life lessons I learned from the Lion King

We all have a favorite Disney Movie. While my daughter loves Frozen and my son is into Marvel…I’m into the Lion King. I admit I don’t know how I feel about the new Lion King coming out. I’m still on the fence but I will be there to watch this all over again and relive the many lessons Lion King has taught me. I think it’s one of the reasons I love this movie so much…the lessons about life that never goes away. It’s like a circle…we will call it the circle of life. Here are a few lessons I learned from the Lion King past and present.

Life lessons learned from the lion king

Life is not fair

I don’t know who told you it was but it ain’t. Some folks will have it all while you are left working your ass off trying to have the A in all. While some folks have the money they may not have the health, while some folks have love others are trying to find it, while some folks have kids others spend their entire savings to have some. Life isn’t a rose bush and even though it may seem like some people have their ish together don’t let the pretty pictures fool you.

Sometimes you have to run away to find yourself

Have you ever ran away from home? As a child I threatened too many times my mom said calmly that she would help me pack and that if I leave I can never return. I never took her up on that because my mom was crazy but as an adult…I admit sometimes I want to run away. I want to run away from life because it can get you down. Instead of running completely away I choose to go on trips to target alone so I can find myself down the rabbit hole of …wait I am way off topic. Sometimes you have to take a trip alone. No friends, no family, no kids, no hubs, and go find who you are. Find the missing pieces of yourself and then come back and show them who you are

Family ain’t shat

Look…my last aunt, my moms baby sister and I don’t speak in fact we hate each other. I don’t even know if she is dead or alive. I don’t use the word hate when it comes to people but yeah we hate each other. It’s always been a clash between us. Maybe it’s because I see myself in her or vice versa. I will say that just because you grew up with someone doesn’t mean they can’t be toxic when they get older. I know my mom had 2 brothers and 2 sisters and they each are different like night and day. I would often wonder how 5 siblings can grow up with the same mama and daddy and then grow up to be……different. Who you can vibe with is your family and it doesn’t have to be blood.

Marry your best friend

If your husband is not your best friend then the marriage will not work because when the love runs out the friendship has to kick in. You all should be able to talk about anything, forgive easily, and laugh about the littlest of things. You have to know when to leave your man alone, you have to know when he is upset without him saying a word, you have to know what he truly loves and what he doesn’t.

Choose your battles carefully

Some of us know who to fight with. If we are the stronger person we know we can win the fight but have you ever fought against someone who is better at fighting than you? I always say some folks know who to mess with and who not to mess with. When Simba leaves he knows he can’t fight Scar but oh when he comes back he has learned how to fight his own battles and knows how to outsmart the other person. You won’t win every fight so as you get older know how to choose which fights you can win, which ones you will lose, and which one you can come back to when you have learned how to fight better.

This is my favorite lesson of all time from the movie

The past will always hurt but you learn from it. Stop running and learn or the past will continue to repeat itself until you learn the lesson.

Stick with the dream you had as a child

What did you want to be as a child? Sometimes we lose sight of that dream because life gets in the way and we fall off track. But isn’t it funny when our life brings us right back to that dream in more ways than one? We can call that the circle of life too! As a child, I wanted to own my own company and be a writer. I got off track going to college, trying to find a job to pay these bills, giving up trying to find a job all to be brought right back to where I started…my dream of owning my own business and being a writer. Guess what I now do both…it took over 15 years but I’m here lol

Remember who you are

Who were you before the world told you what you should be? Who were you in your 20s, your teens, your 30s? Are you that person now or have you forgotten who you were? I forgot….but guess what just like Simba it’s time to step it up a notch and remember who I am.

Disney’s “The Lion King, directed by Jon Favreau (“The Jungle Book”), journeys to the African savanna where a future king is born. Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub’s arrival. Scar, Mufasa’s brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba’s exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.

Staying true to the classic story, director Jon Favreau utilizes pioneering filmmaking techniques to bring the iconic characters to the big screen in a whole new way. Featuring the voices of Donald Glover as Simba, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter as Nala, James Earl Jones as Mufasa, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, Seth Rogen as Pumbaa and Billy Eichner as Timon, Disney’s “The Lion King” opens in U.S. theaters on July 19, 2019.

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