Random Thoughts: Confessions, Prodigies, and Anne Shirley

Some random thoughts of the day:

Have you ever wanted to confess you deepest, darkest secrets to someone? Maybe not even those...just the embarrassing ones? The ones that you don't even tell yourself? We all want that, don't we? Someone who's gonna love us even when we spill the beans..own up to our biggest, ratiest mistakes. Sometimes I wanna spill the beans, sometimes I DO. I gotta big mouth and sometimes what someone else might consider their biggest, baddest secret just trickles off my tongue. It's camouflage. If you tell the truth when the truth doesn't matter then you can afford to tell a little white lie when it does. You just gotta know what matters to who and what doesn't.

I read about an 8 year old painting prodigy today. Apparently at 5 he drew just like a normal 5 year old and then one day his parents took him on vaca and he asked to draw a pic of the scene and BOOM..he's drawing with passion and zeal and he's taking a few lessons and wowing the world and making 100,000's of dollars. I thought..how lucky, to know at 8 what your life is gonna be like. To know your THAT good at something that your being compared to Monet and Picasso. To have found your life's work that easily....to have it dropped in your lap. No questions of a college major or money issues ..I guess maybe there is a flip side too...maybe you want those questions...maybe it ain't or shouldn't be so cut and dried at the ripe old age of 8...

I've been reading "Anne of Green Gables". I thought...how much better of a role model is she for today's  youth than Bella Swan. Anne was a girl of whimsical spirit and high minded morals. A sweet, honest, timeless girl ...I so thought I was Anne Shirley when I was a little girl. I was gonna grow up with my Gilbert and talk like Anne, walk like Anne...That wasn't a bad thing to aspire to be. I think I shall re-take Anne Shirley as my role model. Who says I'm too old for a role model? ;)