When I was young I remember hearing a saying
"youth is wasted on the young"
I was confused & annoyed by it for years.
I understand it now and know it's not relevant to me anymore.
I wouldn't be who I am, doing what I'm doing if I hadn't been the kid I was.
In saying that, I'd have hated being my parent.
8 was my favourite age.
Recently I stumbled across this quote at grrl+dog
and after I stopped feeling sick and started breathing again
I stole it.
"We
plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we
find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we
also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas
as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the
dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we
couldn't have expected."
Ben Okri
My first REinvention was at the age of four.
I cut the buttons off my sisters brand new hand knitted cardigan,
including approx. 1" of knitted cardigan with each button.
You can only imagine the shit I got into for that!
And here I am 40yrs later encouraging others to cut the buttons off their cardigans.
JaM this week is sharing a childhood image of yourself,
one of your favourites,
with a little story that explains who that person was...
maybe in relation to who she is now.
And here I am 40yrs later encouraging others to cut the buttons off their cardigans.
JaM this week is sharing a childhood image of yourself,
one of your favourites,
with a little story that explains who that person was...
maybe in relation to who she is now.
who knew you started so early... man you must of got into some serious shit for that... I remember once I cut my sister hair and yep ... hit the fan... but I didn't become a hairdresser but I do do lots of cutting of things....
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous pic of you Jody! So alive and radiant you're looking. and a wee bit cheeky too! I don't have many memories of my earlier childhood but I'm joining the meme anyway. x
ReplyDeleteLove the photo, a picture of innocence. Glad the trouble you got into over the button incident didn't deter you from going on to re-invent. x
ReplyDeleteThought I would jump on in and have a reminisce...thanks for the prompt. x
ReplyDeleteLovely photo Jody such a happy face! Re-inventing at age 4 your mum must of been sooooo mad.I know how cross i was when my eldest daughter trimmed her younger sister's fringe before going to school.She kept cutting and cutting to get it straight and Laura just stood there letting her. Memories...................
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