My 100th Birthday Story – Intro

On one hand, there’s the little girl who grew up with Batman and Robin as best friends and roommates. As she grew, she wrote songs, became a rockstar, an actress, artist and writer, and became famous. She’s had affairs with musicians, had her books featured in Oprah’s bookclub, has won Oscars and Tonys, and there is nothing she cannot do well. Everyone loves her; everyone admires her.

On the other hand is the tangible person who grew up with difficulty and during her childhood, often had only her imagination for company and comfort. She has felt alone, left out, yearning. She is a dreamer, an idealist, and she lives inside her head, both to her benefit and detriment. She has difficulty coping with sadness and her happiness sometimes frightens her. She believes in Karma and struggles to know herself and to be herself. She often feels fragile and unknowable.

The intersection where these two sides meet is where I live. Between my imagination, my heart, my dreams, my insecurities, my hesitancy, my failures and triumphs and everyday life…is me. And who I am I to say which side defines me most? I reconcile the two; without my imaginary, fantastic interior life I would not be who I am today. Nor would I be were my history not what is has been. I am grateful for both…or rather, I work at gratitude for both. I am still learning their significance and impact and what they might mean for my future.

I think my most important need is possibility – that anything might happen, that any dream might come true. Whether something manifests itself or not has become secondary to needing to believe it could.

My 100^th Birthday Story is the culmination of me from past to present and also my hopes for the future. It is my reality – all of it – and it encompasses both dreams and happenings. An honest look at my life will always encompass both.

 

Thank you for visiting my life.

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