What I Dreamed...

One more big holiday to go and then we start our new year. Seems like only yesterday I was a kid thinking that the Year 2000 sounded so far away and weird, that we would have flying cars and people would live on Mars, and of course I would be a famous movie star, on every planet, and everyone would know my name. And here we are in 2012, so different than what I dreamed.

We will all look back at the year gone by, what we did right, what we did wrong and we will look forward to what we can do, what we shouldn't do. Some of us will stick to our resolutions made on New Year's Day but most of us wont. I myself stopped making resolutions years ago, I just try to do, or not to do, certain things all year round.

My birthday is also very close to New Year's and that has always been my soul searching, look back and look forward time. I'm a year older, a year wiser, a year farther away from that child that thought the Year 2000 sounded like a future so far off, weird and different. Oh what I dreamed.

Well it is weird in some ways and it's surely different. For me this past year has been a surprise. I never dreamed I would be writing a blog, and a blog that people read and like! I never knew this person existed inside of me! I wonder what else, who else is inside of me?

That kid all those years ago who thought she was put here on this Earth to be a superstar, having at least three Oscars by now, has finally realized that the world is a much bigger place than she knew. That the dreams she has today may be her life tomorrow and can also lead to dreams never imagined.

What I dreamed didn't matter. That I dreamed mattered. That I continue to dream matters.

And I also know that I've been a superstar my whole life and the people who know my name are the people that matter.

This picture of me with the gorilla is from my 50th birthday party and the video is from my 40th surprise birthday party, both events shared with so many of the wonderful loving people that this superstar has been blessed with!

I don't know what tomorrow will bring but I will continue to dream and dream big, and I hope you all do the same.

Happy New Year to all, be healthy and dream!