Via Jezebel
In this video, Canadian supermodel Coco Rocha makes like silly string and rocks out with her dad to the Jungle Book song “I wanna be like you.” They are so totally adorable together, and are clearly having a blast. Watching this video was definitely a happy way to end the day.
It reminds me of me and my dad a lot. He and I are both completely silly people, both music lovers, and we’ll frequently break into comedic warbling or scattered dance routines when we’re blasting the tunes together. Silliness: definitely one of the most awesome and underrated foundations of friendship.
I was thinking too how special it is that she’ll always have this video to watch even after he’s passed on. Is that morbid? Well, whatever. I don’t think my family has any home videos, but recently I’ve started to capture small snippets of the things people do that so completely define them or just really make me smile. Like my stepmother’s infectious laugh, or seeing her and my dad clowning around together and giggling; or one of my grandmother’s unintentionally hilarious lectures with the wagging pointed finger, where we all end up laughing. I guess I’m just thinking more about mortality, and realizing how important it is to pull together some of those scraps of life into hard-copy memories.
