Inner Workings, Caring hurts.

Inner Workings is a new Disney short film, this animation, in summary, is about a man going to work but it shows the struggle between the brain and the heart. This short film was really eye opening to how true it is that our heart and mind are at battle every day. It’s so funny how our mind knows what we should be doing but our heart wants to do what we love. I found multiple times throughout the film connecting with the character in the sense of getting distracted by the things I would much rather be doing along the way or even during what I should be doing and need to get done.

Not even just the level of my heart and brain battling each other on “work” side of thinking, like with school, but in the emotional sense too. For me, emotionally, I care deeply for everyone and often that has caused me to get hurt. In my experience if you care deeply you hurt deeply and I find because of those experiences I tend to have to battle inside me constantly about whether caring deeply is worth it. It’s been a struggle of mine since high school, this battle between my brain knowing all the ways caring deeply has back fired and my heart saying but caring deeply is a part of who you are.  This battle between the brain and the heart is so real and this short film expresses that so clearly and well.