Who Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” // E.E. Cummings
Quick Write: Describe in one paragraph who you hope to be when you “grow up.”
Here's an example from SoulPancake's irascible BrainLab:
I always wanted to be a cliche when I grew up. Earl Grey in a big blue porcelain mug and I'd roll my own cigarettes with pungent European tobacco in a worn out pouch, grease stains on a cable knit sweater all sweat and lanolin. I'd wipe dark rags on the light glass and shovel coal fires all morning to push that thin red needle up on the steam boiler for the fog horn and the iron radiators there in the keeper's house. I'd be a widower with a treasured photo of my beloved on the mantle, an old mongrel on a linty afghan by a fireplace howling with foggy drafts blowing down the flue and crackling the wood fire. There'd be a lot of work but a lot of time for poems I'd never publish, for remembering the people I'd never see again, and for losing myself in a long, unbroken gaze across bone-gray stretches of sea that would roll in imperceptibly to push and pull at the stony shore and my aging vacillation between contentment and contrition. // @CSW
