| | "The goal of life
is to take everything
that made you weird
as a kid and get people
to pay you money for it
when you're older."
- David Freeman, screenwriter
This quote on the Wizard of Ads site got me thinking--what made me weird as a kid? It's hard to know what was just being a kid and what made me _weird_ as a kid, but a few things came to mind.
When I was four or five my Mom taught me how to spell my name, plus she taught me two bonus words, "big" and "little." I scrawled my name on almost any available surface, but in classic middle-child mode, I couldn't decide if I should write "big" or "little" next to my name--it all depended on who I compared myself with. So I used both adjectives.
Some kids want to be doctors, nurses, firefighters or farmers, but I wanted to be one of those cool cashiers at the grocery store. Clanking silverware together sounded almost like an old-fashioned cash register.
Paisley drove me nuts. I could have endlessly searched it to find just one tear-drop in a satisfying symmetrical oval shape. But I never did.
So why did I ever consider going into writing? I was meant to be an indecisive anal retentive bean-counter. |
| | Posted 7/1/2009 9:31 AM - 18 Views - 4 eProps - 4 comments
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