Prompt: Were you born to shine in one special way? What makes you really stand out?

I don’t really know how to answer this question.   I don’t think there is any one way that I was born to shine.  We all have a talent, a way about us that makes us special.  Sometimes it’s easily recognizable, like drawing, singing, math or a genius level intelligence.  There are things that you may be good at, but that’s not what makes you shine.  Some talents are found out later in your life when you are trying to find your place, your career.  It may be discovered when you are doing something that a friend is dragging you to because they want to do it.  Hair, make-up, nails…

When I was young, I think I had a good imagination.  I’ve always like writing and at one point aspired to be a screenwriter.  That evolved into writing the “great American novel” which got put on the back-burner as I needed to work to make a living, which lead into getting married and becoming a mother.  I still enjoy writing (if you haven’t noticed), but I no longer have the desire to pen a novel nor a screenplay.  I feel that I don’t write well enough for that.  And I’m okay with that.  So you’ll just have to suffer though these 300+ word blog entries.  lol

As I sit here and write this entry, I’m trying to figure out what makes me special.  It’s quite a narcissistic or egotistical thing to think about… I like to think that I am a pretty good judge of character, even though I have been incredibly wrong on 2 occasions.  Not just a little wrong, but epicely wrong.  So I guess I’m really good at messing up.  In a whole and total way.  I don’t know if that’s really something that you want to “shine” at though.

So what am I really good at?  I’m decently good at plenty of things, but not much better than adequate.  I don’t think there is something that I really “shine” at.  I think that’s ok.  I’m still figuring that out.  And I’m having A LOT of fun figuring it out.  At 40-something I still have not figured out what I want to be when I grown up, and like I said, I’m okay with that.

Think about it and tell me, what do you “shine” at?