“Newt!”
“I’ve got him, Minho.”
At Tanners Orchard in Illinois this weekend two of my close friends and I ran the corn maze. Ever since we saw “The Maze Runner” last October, we’ve assumed the characters of Minho, Thomas, and Newt as part of our identities, in those parts of our personality that match theirs. It’s been a way for us to have fun while we hang out, and a way for us to keep in touch with a movie we thoroughly enjoyed.
It’s another aspect of our relationship that ties us together. And so we went to Tanners for the second year in a row, and we went through the corn maze together as characters from “The Maze Runner.”
For me, this is an aspect of my relationship with these two people that deepens it. We call each other the characters from the movies, and we’ve enjoyed watching them together. And as all of us are writers, we’ve enjoyed theorizing about what might come next. It’s a part of our relationship that I’m deeply grateful for.
And choosing those characters for each other says something about our relationship: we know each other well enough to see one another in those characters. And as we interact using these names, we’re having fun with one another and deepening our relationship with another means.
When thinking about the relationship of these characters within the last couple of movies, too, it says something about our own interactions and relationships. By choosing these characters, we’re not only seeing the characters in each other, but we’re also seeing aspects of the characters’ relationships within our own: some of the bigger traits being loyalty, teamwork, and trust.
Relationships can’t solely be deep conversations and emotions running wild. There has to be some fun involved, and for us a part of that is through the times we’re characters from “The Maze Runner.” It gives us the chance to just mess around and be nerds. And we love it.
What are some of the fun and crazy things you do with your friends that you love?
Voice Pianissimo 
I’m sure as a fellow entity of the secret mythology of the club of heretics, you know just how much fun we have together in the crazy conversations we undergo. But yeah, once again, I really appreciate how you used a novel series that’s fairly popular right now to continue to support your claim from the previous post about the definition of relationships. Well done 🙂
While I was reading your post, I could picture you and your friends running through the corn maze. I have seen the movie “Maze Runner” and I would have done the exact same thing had I been in your shoes. This is a fun and thought provoking post!