Lessons from Wall-E

 

The girls and I had a great day of fun together.  We went shopping at Michael’s for some great craft projects and to replenish our art supplies.  We bought some cute little plaster models to paint that were only 20 cents each.  I took them out for lunch and then we caught a movie, Wall-E.  It was a great movie and it had a wonderful fitness message that I couldn’t pass up. 

If you have seen the movie, then you know where I am going with this message.  If you haven’t seen Wall-E it is about a little robot that is alone on earth cleaning up all our trash while we float around in space waiting to return.  700 years later, we are still floating in space, immobile and morbidly obese.  This is due to being spoiled so bad that we don’t even need to walk around since we have hover chairs that carrying us where ever we need to go; robots that clean, dress and feed us; and junk food at our beckon call.  Everyone had their faces glued to monitor screens the entire time. 

Although it was a farce, I could see a lot of similarities with our society today.  People are sedentary, sitting most of the day, eating more junk food because it is convenient and moving less.  The world, not just America, is becoming more overweight and obesity is so prevalent that it is now affecting our children. 

I was really impressed with the message of this movie even if it was rather extreme and overboard and I hope it struck a few chords with others.