Mei Mei has been interested in themes of growing up and becoming an adult since she was very young. As a child she would see and hear of what to expect when you become an adult, but hearing about something and actually living it are two wildly different things. Her film Mindful is an attempt to visualize the uncertainty, fear, and stress young adults feel in this turbulent and ever changing phase of their lives. She felt it important this film be done at the end of her college career, when the first hand knowledge of these feelings was still fresh.