There is nothing as beautiful as a child’s mind. Open to the world’s endless possibilities. Dreamers of the impossible dreams. Hungry and impressionable minds searching for answers in every face. Believers of the forgotten beliefs of our youth. Most adults do not realize the importance of keeping the young, young. Luckily for me I had a mother who supported the ever active minds of children, and would do anything to keep their dreams colorful, even if that included telling a simple white lie.
I can't exactly remember how the conversation came about, because I was so young. I don't remember what age I was, or where we were when we began talking about it. Yet I can recall the conversation, and the answer my mother gave me that probably changed the way I looked at the world from then on. Due to my obsession with alien movies of the 80's like E.T., Ghostbusters, and Howard the Duck, I became questionable about the possibility of life on other planets. So I asked the one person who I believed to have all the answers, if life really did exist beyond the stars. The answer she gave me was not from your average Walt Disney movie. Instead it was straight out of the comics. She told me that they DO exist. In fact some of them live amongst us disguised as human beings. They could even be our neighbors. They probably ARE our neighbors. Then she told me what at the time was one of the most fascinating things I had ever heard. "They might even be us."
Oh my god, I had always known I was different, but this was from another world. I was from another world. I started to dream of what my home planet would be like. I knew that it was beautiful. Cotton candy sky's, poke-a-dotted with the brightest stars you have ever seen. With the tallest trees, and enchanted singing flowers. An almost gravity less place, where I could sing and dance all day, and FLY. Oh how I missed flying. A world of magic. Mermaids and fairies. Witches and warlocks. A world of endless possibilities. But wait. What was I doing here? Why would I leave my perfect world for this? There has to be a reason, there MUST be a reason. Of course, I came here for a purpose, a mission. That was when my journey to prove the impossible was possible began. I was here to save the world. To use my magic from within, to bring the joy from my world to this world. I tried for years to focus my energy, and bring my magic out from within, but never succeeded. When I became a teenager I finally decided to give up, but I knew in my heart of hearts that it was possible.
One day while reminiscing in the car with my brother, I decided to tell him about the time my mother told me we were aliens. He looked at me as if I were crazy, sighed, and said "you know, mom use to do a lot of drugs." We looked at each other, and both laughed. Despite what my brother said, I liked believing I was from a different world, and had magical powers. It made me feel special, and made my life a hell of a lot more interesting. So she may have had to lie to satisfy my need for answers, but at least it was a lie that always kept me dreaming.
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