I, The Divine

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As a young girl, I always felt my life was being filmed for posterity. I thought of myself as an actress in a documentary or a piece of cinéma verité. I imagined myself being the subject of a future episode of This Is Your Life. I even practiced it. I sat in front of the mirror, trying on different facial expressions. Shock at being considered worthy of a retrospective of my fabulous life, surprise for when they called my elementary school teacher, tears for when they called my mother, Janet, and glee for when they called my father.

The practice sessions stopped as I grew older, of course, but my self-focus never allowed me to diverge from the belief that my life must be recorded.

Goethe said:

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it;

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

I begin.