My Center

Have you seen Rise of the Guardians? Great. Movie. And that's saying something, coming from someone who doesn't "do" Santa, the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy (that's a post for another time). 

I love the tough, tattooed version of Santa in this film. The real St. Nick did punch a heretic after all. (Scroll to the bottom of the link for all the awesome memes.)

The part of the movie that stuck with me the most was this:

Santa's personality using nesting dolls. Can you get any cooler than that? Jack opens each doll to reveal a new layer of Nicholas. The last doll, his center, is wonder. Nicholas then asks Jack "What is at your center?

That question got inside my head. It made me wonder what my nesting doll would look like. 

Outside I am quiet and reserved. If you get to know me a little bit I am quirky and love to make people laugh. The next layer is a little on the dark side. The next is friendly and caring and the next fierce and loyal. And the center? What is at my center? 

I would say hope. 

Hope is what I crave the most. It's what I want to bring to the people around me. "Never give up, never surrender!" that's what I'm about.... and possibly being a geeky weirdo.

Ahem... moving on.

The funny thing about hope is that you have to be honest. You have to admit that things are bad before hope can help you. Because the time when you most need hope is the time when your circumstances are dire. Hope is what keeps you going when nothing else will, even though it's just a sliver of something that might be. 

So what will this blog be like with me as it's center? Sometimes it will be funny (I hope). Sometimes it will be dark. It will always be honest. And hopefully it will be that sliver of light to someone who needs it.

If you find your way to my blog I'd love to hear, what's at your center?