I started to make a post about this amazing woman, but youtube doesn’t allow it to be embedded. Then I came back and made it anyway because she so inspired me, so you’ll just have to go there to listen to her amazing voice. (click picture to go to the youtube video)

Liz Strauss ask how we make our dream visible. Susan Boyle sure made hers visible in a big way, and the song she chose was perfect. I think however that she shouldn’t need to change her physical appearance to something acceptable to anyone. She did it her way, she is who she is and I find that absolutely perfect.

Since I want this post to remain uplifting, I’ll leave my personal dreams or lack thereof out of it. Huge kudos to Susan for having the courage to go for hers! And boo to all the people who prejudged her by her appearance. That’s always been a sore point with me. Maybe because I’m just an ugly girl on the outside, but not on the inside.

The Pros of ADD (that’s attention deficit disorder):

• It’s a perfect fit for a blog with no topic.
• You can learn little bits of tons of subjects.
• You never have a chance to get bored.
• Life is a constant adventure.
• There’s a certain freedom to being impulsive and spontaneous.
• People with ADD are highly intuitive.
• People with ADD are creative.
• It isn’t about inattention, but attention to so many things.
• People with ADD can hyper-focus like nobody’s business.

Even though it has complicated my life ever since I got the first “whispers” and “won’t sit still” on my report card in kindergarten, I wouldn’t want to be any other way. Of course if I’d been born the other way I’d never know what I was missing, but I like it this way just fine. Even though all through the years I see the trouble it caused me. It would have been easier to have had some help learning to deal with it, but over all I like my brain going off on whatever tangent strikes it and I even like it when I get obsessively stuck on something and stay up 30 hours or so working on it. I could spend months telling of my adventures that came from ADD. It’s how I saw Boston, joined the army, lived in Savannah, moved to California, it’s also how I spent a winter living in a basement and sleeping on the Charles riverbank, but I wouldn’t have missed it all for anything.

I find myself wondering. I guess when I look back and see the recent history where I was doing pretty good that should be of some use, if only to myself. A reminder if you will that times aren’t always horrible. I think people want inspiring and uplifting and not all this depressing crap I spew. The last few days I’ve been thinking what if I just quit? Oh I could leave it up for all those people with pineal tumors to find encouragement but what other use is it really? I don’t offer any kind of advice or knowledge (other than bloody brain tumors) that anyone is really interested in. It’s just a total hodgepodge of junk.

Maybe I should have added a poll to this