A human’s life has long been measured by the years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds endured by the individual. Time is just a hallow component of measurement. But what is often over looked when measuring a person’s life are all of the events and moments that have created who you are after all of these years. 

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[When the time comes to sell your used car, it is often very hard for an owner to cough it up. There is something else holding you back from selling the car beside the extremely depreciated price of your car. It is the emotional bond you have formed with the car through life’s many miles. Rather than looking at your car’s 200,000 miles the buyer looks at, (you) the seller looks at the memories that have made up those thousands of miles and the times the car has been there for you, causing the difficulty of giving up this used, beat up car]. This same idea can be related to the 1965 essay Joyas Volardoras by Brian Doyle and Disney Pixar’s 2015 film Inside Out. While both are from different time periods and are completely different texts, they address the impact of events on our lives and how they play a part on who we are. The tax of life’s events on ourselves, the “children’s book” style of delivery, and the barriers in life we have to overcome are all main themes in these texts that may not all be entirely the same, but complement each other perfectly. 

These the subjects of these stories vary completely, but their roots were formed through struggles throughout their childhood that helped inspire their works as adults. Brian Doyle, the author of Joyas Volardoras, born in 1935, had a father who was a drunk, as well as a sister who had Downs caused a very dysfunctional family. Doyle’s sister passed when he was in eighth grade. He was forced to grow up at a very young age and take care of his mother. His essay is about different types of animals such as hummingbirds and blue whales and the different characteristics of their hearts and the capacity in which they can hold. He connects the animals’ hearts to the hearts of a human and speaks about how time can be measured in heartbeats. Heartbeats in a sense that they are produced by the actions and life events we experience. Inside Out is an Oscar winning animated film, that writer Pete Doctor almost never finished writing. He found his inspiration from past life events and produced a movie that had won one of the most prestigious awards in film. As a high schooler, Doctor could never adjust to new situations and suffered from severe anxiety in high school. Around the time that he was struggling writing the plot for Inside Out in 2009, he saw his own daughter developing a shyness which was similar to his at the time and it triggered him to have the story take a completely different turn. Inside Out is a movie about an adolescent teen, Riley, who moves across the country to San Francisco where she left her old life behind. Although it is based off Riley, the main characters live inside her head: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. They are in charge of creating who Riley becomes. The stories express real emotion which is the artwork of real life events that everyone can relate to. 

These stories use a currency that explains life’s that is uniquely to their plots. The use of this “currency” of life creates and an interesting dynamic that creates a point of view that allows the reader to catch a different side of the deep meaning that often falls by the wayside when placed along with traditional values and mindsets. In Joyas Volardoras, time is an overlaying theme of the essay. Most people like to think of time, especially in one’s life, in a numerical way such as the number of year, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds and how long they are with their loved ones. Brian Doyle does not address this this idea in the traditional way. Instead, Doyle uses heartbeats as a measurement of time. He beautifully states, “the price of their ambition is a life closer to death… you can spend the (heartbeats) slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old” (Doyle 95). He also states, “You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and it all comes down in an instant” (Doyle 96). I believe that this shows that you create the life you want, but not necessarily in terms of ‘exhausting’ yourself. The way you spend your heartbeats determine who you are. I think heartbeats are unique because the heart is so symbolic. It represents love and passion. The second quote shows that the traumatic events you will come across in life are inevitable. It is up to you to determine the heartbeats exhausted and the way you ultimately will handle the situation because it will definitely come across your path. In Disney Pixar’s Inside Out, their type of ‘currency of life’ is something that builds up over time that shapes who you are the way you feel. In the movie, Riley experiences life events such as a big move across the country, sleeping in a room that she is different than her room at home, not having any friends, to playing hockey-the sport she loves. Every single experience she has, there is an emotion evoked from it. The five emotions living in her head are in charge of documenting these emotions by placing color coordinating orbs in a lifetime bank in Riley’s head. The more of the emotions she experiences, the more the emotions power will have on her. The more traumatic the event, the more of an impact that emotion will effect her in the future, this is a called a “Core Memory”. However, yes, the events in her life will impact Riley and her emotions tremendously, but this is not the end all be all for her. She has the power to turn these emotions around and not let it impact her. She is in ultimate control even though the five emotions for the most part are working against her. This is important to this claim because it enforces the fact that the way you live your life has benefits and consequences, as well as it acts as the glue that pieces the parts of who you become in your life. Both of these ‘currencies of life’ and building blocks to who we become are so important because we often don’t think of the impact and the role that significant events have on us. I took a sociology course in high school. The majority of beliefs in the study of Sociology is the idea that once you are born, the situations you are put in develop who you become down the timeline of your life. Both of these texts uniquely support that idea of an outside source having a deep impact on who we are and who we desire to become. 

Another interesting compatibility component about Joyas Volardoras and Inside Out are the way the two are presented. Brian Doyle presents his essay in written form. One that demands the reader to slow down and appreciate the meaning of the essay. He does this by instructing the reader to, “Consider the hummingbird for a long moment” (Doyle 94). Then proceeds to write about very deep stuff, but never directly. I like to think of Doyle’s piece of one big metaphor. By never saying anything directly, I think it allows the reader to produce an explanation of their own. Most people would conclude the same message, with slight deviations of their own that can relate to their own life. Although it may take awhile by re-reading and trying to reach that level of understanding, once reached it is a thing of beauty. Inside Out however, the film is targeted at mainly kids. The plot is simple, comical, and relatable to everyone on all levels. The level of analysis it takes to dissect this movie is something that you could easily process as you are half asleep watching this movie, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. These two types of texts are important because Brian Doyle’s text is not for the relaxed audience, but Inside Out is. I like to look at it as if someone is having trouble understanding Joyas Volardoras, you can have them watch Inside Out in hopes that it can give them a better insight to what Brian Doyle is trying to explain. Inside Out is the much lighter children’s book for Joyas Volardoras, much like the original Beauty and the Beast and Disney’s animated adaptation to it, along most other Disney fairytales. These two texts may be so different, but they are perfect compliments together. 

In conclusion, the two widely different texts are perfect compliments to each other. They explain why we are who we are and how to overcome life’s largest obstacles. [finish conclusion]