Ladies and Gents! Say hello to the future me! Her name is CiCi (because for some reason, I think I"ll be going by that name when I'm old) and she's forty years old.
 |
I know I know.... pretty awesome huh? I mean, my hair is still short (I think I've fully converted to the pixie cut) and my sense of style is still ROCKING!
Now, you may be thinking "why on earth did Corrine spend 40 minutes drawing this ugly stick figure on the computer?"
Well.... the answer will come in story-form. A girl at church said one Sunday that she created a "super" version of herself (aka her totally awesome future self) and whenever she is thinking about what she needs to work on, or where she needs to go next, she remembers this "SUPER WOMAN" and it helps giver her direction. Needless to say, this really struck a cord with a girl who is getting ready to graduate from college with really no idea what she's going to do for the next year of her life.
So... I went home that every day and created "SUPER CORRINE", my awesome forty year old self and I wish to share her with you..... maybe for accountability or maybe just so y'all can make a mental note to be jealous of me in 16 years :)
So here goes nothing. I want to be......
.......a doctor (a phD doctor.. not the medical kind)
.......fluent in Español
....................a kind, patient, loving mother to who knows how many children!
........an avid book reader
........a missionary
...............a supportive "still-madly-in-love-with-my-husband" wife
...............a person who always sees the good in others
......... a world traveler (aka my passport is running out of room!)
............ a gospel scholar
.......... a person who never speaks guile
.............. a garderner
.................... empathetic and not afraid to show it
................. a researcher
...... a master sewer
................ a shepherd, finding those who are lost
............. self-reliant
............ able to crochet/knit more than one pattern
................ still be crazy enough to think that I am changing the world
So there you have it friends... okay so I didn't write down everything but that's only because I didn't want you to be stuck reading this blog forever! So this is just part of who I want to be; in fact, I think this is who I really am... I just forget sometimes.
E.E. Cummings once said: "It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are"
I think I'm starting to see what he means......
