It’s like being in high school and knowing I’ll graduate in six months. The real world is out there and I’m wondering what I’m going to do. People tell me: “Some day you’ll look back at this and think how wonderful it was.” Ha!
Richard Vernon: What did you want to be when you were young?
Carl: When I was a kid, I wanted to be John Lennon.
Richard Vernon: Carl, don’t be a goof. I’m making a serious point here.
Quotation from the movie The Breakfast Club
Andrew Clark: You don’t have any goals.
John Bender: Oh but I do.
Andrew Clark: Yeah?
John Bender: I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights.
Another quotation from the movie The Breakfast Club
Your blog. I dig it.
childhood friends ???
People kept telling me the same thing. It’s okay not to believe them.
When I was at school, I saw my future as a lion… and today I’m a donkey!
A fractured skull at the end of summer before my last year, prettymuch killed my University aspiration…I still maintain something better’s coming your way, trust in that, if nothing else
As one who has been the recipient of many a “helpful” platitude for some time now, I have to say, they’re a bit hard to take. And not necessarily at all helpful.
Here’s one with a twist – “When one door closes, don’t – for heaven’s sake! – go through the first one that appears. There are others.”
A wide open future can be both exhilarating – and intimidating. May you discover more of those doors offering the former rather than the latter.
And I don’t recommend a lobotomy!
The real world is a blank canvas, dear Sera, and it’s awaiting your masterpiece. Paint away!
Love your work…it is always great
Good to be looking at this next new and very scarey phase as ‘possibility’. The world is waiting..
heh, i had to wonder whether there was a relationship between kick boxing and the missing teeth in the last kid
I didn’t want to be anything when i was a kid. I just wanted to do what i was doing. Playing, learning, reading, etc. Every time someone asked me that i had no answer. I basically still don’t.
a lobotomy and some tights lol no wonder i love that movie lol oh well Sera, if people just tell you to ‘be yourself’ and ‘you can be anything you want’ they are just blowing sunshine up yer butt anyway… i liked your disclaimer lol and and nooooooo i don’t wanna go down the drain when i die… ‘IT’ is down there…saying ‘we all FLOAT down here’
I’m going to come here every day for your fabulousness and Beth’s comments.
Why limit yourself with wanna be? You already have a huge head-start with the accident of where you were born. No more options, then stick your thumb out and hitch a ride, see where it takes you. Metaphorically speaking of course
and always remember, Que Sera, Sera
You have a world of opportunity ahead of you.
But you have the right to mourn a bit.
I can think of a few people whose lives would be improved by a lobotomy and some tights
i want to be a tree toooooooo….. but with the ability to shoo away dogs that want to pee on me…. I want to always fit in with the crowd of trees around me, just by the sheer fact that i’m a tree… i want to never get fat, i want to rise with the sun and set with the moon and never be insomniac, i want to create fresh air and i want to reach for the skies….
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. ” ~~ Dr. Seuss
well with compliments like that who needs… gettin’ pee’d on lol…. i’m glad my husband married me instead of peeing on me, i much prefer the ceremony, even if it all boils down to the same thing.. claimed territory
I LOVE them ALL!! The ckickboxer is a favorite! And Sera I guess you already ARE what you want to be!! Cheers!
which would you rather have? a thumb or a tail? i think thumbs are very useful, tho my dog seems to do fine without them, and having a tail is an extra way of showing how joyful you are, tho it is wearing your heart on your sleeve, which i HEAR is a bad thing, tho i tend to disagree… i love honesty about everything, including feelings, i want to know someone, not the cardboard mask they present to the world
having an extra place to wipe your nose is a sign of enlightenment? i’ll buy that, that big ol’ fat buddha prolly got soooo big so he would have more surface area for boogers…. course it’s hard enuff to find clothes that fit without being a booger expanse… once i made Jesus laugh by wiping my nose on my sleeve and this huge ass booger came out and i said ‘oh sorry Jesus, deliver me from booger demons coz that was gross’ and this laughter bubbled up inside of me, it was sooo cool…..
yes booger demons! you never know you know lolol that was when i used to talk to Jesus constantly, without thinking, like a machine gun lol to help you understand how i could blurt something like that out and make God laugh lol coco is a ‘she’.. her name is coco chanel
but she’s not a nazi sympathizer lol
what did i think about before you?
i thought about the need for you…. i was selfish too
conversations with Jesus are only one sided until SUDDENLY Jesus decides to talk back lol like when someone (say ME) needs to be saved real bad, but you’re right, God is notoriously silent lol
All past smiles make us smile today!
Have a nice week end Seraphine!
I knew I wanted to see that movie again! My kids grew up on it…but that was a long time ago. I’d like a good laugh again. With your ability to connect the dots, Seraphine, I have the feeling you really COULD be anything you want. Seriously! I’d like to believe you’ll be pleasantly surprised….
Ahhhh!!!! Don’t know where in time we lost that urge to be what we wanted to be.
Ah, The Breakfast Club! Good movie, great memories!!!
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Good for you and us.,lucy