13 Going on 30 - Society's Rush

The movie 13 Going on 30 is a film about a young girl who wishes so hard to be "Thirty, Flirty, and Thriving". Her wish comes and all of a sudden she is a thirty year old woman, thriving as a magazine editor who is dating a famous athlete. She is missing things though. She is missing friends, she is missing family, she is missing purpose. The main character sees that the wish she made was a brash choice made in anger and sadness when emotions were high and self control was out the window.

This movie has such an understated message. Sometimes what you wish for isn't what you truly need. You can jump to being someone you're not but that will only hurt you. It speaks to young girls who want to be older, who want to be "prettier", like the woman in the magazine. Young girls look to be that model in magazine, the one that probably starved herself for weeks just to get one shot. This isn't what we should strive to be. We need to strive and push each other to be who God made us to be. He didn't make us to be starved animals who hurt others. God made us to rulers and leaders, to be powerful and kind, to be his children.

This movie made me remember that we don't need to be a woman in a magazine. We are unique and precious because God made each of us important and different.