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gooseweasel:

I think my favorite thing about Moana is just the overarching theme of “Who You Are Is Enough”. It’s a little bit of an update to the same as “Be Yourself” that we’ve been getting for all these years, because it has… more of a sense of your place in a community, I guess. Mulan kind of touched upon this, but not with the same force or emotional impact that Moana does. “Being yourself” is hard when you feel like you don’t know who you are or don’t like yourself, and its very self-centered (not necessarily in a bad way!). But Moana says that connections to others are important. That sometimes, focusing on the people who care about us is what helps us find things to like about ourselves. Sometimes we need other’s help finding ourselves again when we get lost, to remember who we are. And even when you feel lost or alone or worthless, when you don’t quite know who you are anymore, who you are is still good enough.

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