Chocolate Box- Remembering Play

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From the first bite, I was taken back to my childhood. I thought of that age-old question adults ask children. “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

I pondered upon this question, trying to remember some of the things I imagined as career in my young mind. I’m going to admit,  my answers were not always typical.

-Pirate: I thought the eye patch was cool. And you wore a hook & shot cannons? Even better. Of course, I did not realize what a pirate actually did.

"A Pirate's Life for Me"

-Star Trek Captain:  I was heart-broken when I found out I couldn’t pursue this & decided I want to play in an episode as an alien instead.

"If I couldn't be a captain, I could at least play an alien."

-Actress: but I wanted to play only villains. I’m not sure exactly why.

-Cowgirl:  Not a “real” one though,  b/c mainly I wanted to ride around on a horse,  be in shoot outs & chase outlaws. I watched a lot of westerns as a kid…

-Mermaid: I watched Splash as a kid & decided that was awesome. I admit to  putting salt in my bath water in hopes of fins. In my defense I was only four or five.

Forget romance, boys still had "cooties". I wanted fins & to breath under-water.

I can only imagine people’s reactions to my innocent answers. Perhaps, that is why storytelling/ writing was so appealing to me.