We Love You So – Where The Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze

Every child needs an adventure of some kind. The process of becoming an adult is predicated on exercises in independence, facing up to intimidating circumstances, and finding out what it means to be alone. Laura Dekker is simply ahead of the curve. It’s easy to forget what being 13 can be like, and that it’s not the same for everyone. Unfortunately, grown ups’ instinct to protect the young often comes coupled with a proclivity for patronization. Here’s to Laura, and let’s hope she gets a chance to sail off through night and day, in and out of weeks and almost a year to wherever her journey takes her.

Tags: adolescence, childhood, Laura Dekker, sailing, sea travel

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