“……..what we found out is that each one of us is………

A brain…..

And an athlete…..

And a basket case….

And a princess…….

And a criminal.”

Figuring out who I really am has taken me a lifetime. Granted a lot of people figure it out early. I was not that person.

In elementary school I figured out that making grades won my teachers praise. My third grade teacher, Ms Cook, was amazing. She challenged me every week to read and draw and tell my stories on paper. The thoughts that circled around in my head. Once she gave me a thesaurus and I can still feel the stiff pages and remember searching for new words. In her class, I was a brain.

As I moved into my teenage years and middle school life began to get more complicated. School work became second fiddle to my new love. Basketball! Being an athletic girl in a world of frilly girls was really quite easy. Growing up with brothers and cousins proved to toughen my hide and strengthen my ball skills. On the court I was for sure an athlete.

Soon though, I felt myself morphing into someone I barely recognized. I batted my eyelashes and smiled coyly at every boy I met. I learned that blue eyes and long legs went a lot farther OFF the court. Relationships soon became a spiraling drain in my life. It was out of control and I was going from one to the next searching for that one true love. However the only thing true was that I was a basket case.

But there is something I really wish I had realized back then. It took me a long time to know that I had my very own story. Each persons individual style gives purpose in this life. It took me years to realize all my uniqueness is a good thing. My desire to be different from the norm is ok. I am and You are one in a million and able to accomplish so much more than you have even dreamed.

So what about the criminal you wonder?

There is quote that says “ with a thief we want to know how much money he stole and from whom., with the artist it’s not how much and from whom…. But what he did with it”

You have been given you this palate of life. Stay true to who you are and what you feel you are called you to do. Don’t become a thief or a criminal. Don’t steal what has been given you! Do something with it.

“Does that answer your question?”

…🎶Don’t you… forget about me…..🎶

Make yourself unforgettable!