Be a movie star!

Dreams and fantasies are the fruits of hope. Hope is something we need because our lives are not up too high on the perfection scale. My dreams and fantasies I imagine are a little different from your average gal who would like to be a movie star or a singer or a veternarian for that matter. No.

I'm not sure how to describe it.

I'm finding there is a fine line for everything that I'm nearly always crossing or in danger of crossing. Friendship is something that I'm getting better at. I don't know if I've ever really kept a friend just for being my fabulous self (which is what I always have expected), but I'm slowly finding out that real love is work. If you want to be loved, you've got to LOVE!! It seems on the extreme side of simplistic and logical (DUH), but how many of us think that love is something that our friends owe to us because we are gracious enough to be their friend and answer their phone calls? In many ways we're unconsciously saying: you are so lucky to be MY friend.

What's the point of all this? All I'm saying is there is a serious lack of generous people who have genuine love to give. My dream is to love people with a Genuine Love that comes from hard work and a Foundation worth building a friendship on. I want to be a real friend, someone to count on, someone to confide in, someone to listen, someone whose "yes is yes," and whose "no is no." I want to be the friend that John was to Jesus, or that Jesus was to his twelve homies!

Who do you want to be remembered as? The movie star whose face everyone knew but nobody remembered to shed a tear for when you overdosed and are six feet under? Or do you want to be the one who everyone remembers as the true friend that knew how to love without reserve, give without a second thought, and humbly honor others without thinking of yourself first?

I hope my life speaks for who I want to be.