What’s a thing you were completely obsessed with as a kid?
When I was a child, I was rambunctious, bright and thought I could help the whole world. My days were often filled with wild imaginary adventures and enough mud pies to feed my entire family twice over. I had a profound fascination with animals and loved each and every one of them, especially the less favored, like bugs and snakes. My attention was often drawn to dolphins and horses. My room once was decorated in both themes, as if the ocean mural on my walls and galloping horse figurines places stegically on every availble surafce matched perfectly together. I would spend hours researching every fact and details I could consume, writing it down for a much needed future use. Every type, every characteristic, every natural habit, I memorized, fantisizing that one day I would be working with them. I would ride my horse into work like a true cowgirl and spend all day swimming with my ocean friends as a marine biologist.
Today, I still have a particular fondness of horses and dolphins and certainly my love for all animals has grown deeper. I am no marine biologist but the yearning of that little girl, lost in her own imagination of hopes and dreams, still makes an appearance from time to time.
Heather Congrove 