An Unexpected Lesson

Hey guys.

It's been a very long time since I've blogged... a very very very long time. Because I have been in limbo. Well, I still am in limbo, but I have been inspired. So... A blog...

My adopted little sister, Maggie, thinks that I am long-lost twins with Kirsten Dunst. Mostly, apparently, because of her character in "Elizabethtown." I had only seen the movie once, a long time ago when it first came out on DVD, so I decided to watch it again tonight. And I cried. A lot. And not for the reasons you are thinking.

Yes, it is a jerk-at-your-heartstrings sort of film. Ask anyone who's ever watched a movie with me, and they'll tell you that I cry easily, but this was not my normal movie cry. See, I think maybe Maggie's a little wrong... I'm not so sure that I am a "Claire" (Kirsten Dunsts' character), but she is amazing. She is someone I would love to be like. And Maggie, who, let's face it, is pretty much marvelous, thinks I'm like her. And that means something pretty damn special.

I like to think that, because I am eleven and a half years older than her, that maybe Mags looks up to me a little... Or that, at least, I should be behaving myself as if she does. And she thinks I'm like "Claire", someone I would look up to. (You know, if she were real.) And that gives me something important to do. To be. I can strive to be more of the things that Maggie thinks she sees in me already. I can be more fully me, there-by, become better than the me I am now. I can become the me that Maggie sees. And that feels like a great purpose.

So, now a little challenge for the few of you who will read this: Think about the "Maggie" in your life. Think about someone who sees great things in you... the things you can't see in yourself... and become that person they see.

And always remember that the people who might look up to you often have so much more to teach you, than you have to teach them.

Dream big dreams,
K