December 9, 2010

  • When I was seven, I decided that my life needed to be as interesting as the cartoons that I watched on television.

    I lived an average life where I came home, did homework, played games with my family, drew pictures, watched television.  But I wanted to travel to mysterious worlds and catch Pokemon and talk to animals.  I believed that someone I knew would one day eventually truly travel to a parallel universe, and I was going to be damned if it wasn't me.  I only wanted to read the mysterious-looking books in our school library thinking that I'll eventually find the book that would warp me into some magical fairytale land inside the book.  I would spend hours just staring at my open palm, trying to imagine fire there and be able to summon flames like a sorceress.

    After a few months, I realized it wasn't happening.  At first I was actively pursuing the art of wizardry, but before long I was just a simple daydreamer that imagined that something big was going to happen for me.  I was destined for great things.  And it wasn't long after that that I got impatient and just started creating the interesting, adventurous world that I wanted to be in, the one where I'm a sorceress and defending the world from evil.  For one, I formed a vigilante group in my second grade class where we pretty much just tattletaled on people to the teacher, and I would reward everyone with handmade word search puzzles for a hard day's work of world-saving.  Within a few weeks, we devolved from a vigilante troupe to a word search puzzle club where all we did was make, distribute, and finish each other's word search puzzles. 

    But I was quick to move on from that failed fiasco of heroism and went on to making up stories about seeing actual Pokemon in the soccer lawn, so I took my then-vigilante-now-word-search-puzzle-club out to the field to go Pokemon hunting.  I swear, I saw a Pikachu and a Caterpie right there!!

    I was legitimately going somewhere with this, but fudge that I got a final tomorrow I'm gonna go back to studying.  use your imaginations liek i did when i was seven

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