I’ve never thought of myself that way, but looking back over my life, I’d have to say YES!
My very first memories are of me singing hymns while I swung on my swingset in the backyard. I’d memorized every hymn in the hymnal and off the country radio station my parents listened to, and would sing for hours! From Victory in Jesus to Harper Valley PTA, I could wail with the best of them! I sang throughout middle and high school, and even lettered in chorus.
After school, I didn’t sing much unless I was in church or with friends. A former boyfriend sent a tape of me singing(without me knowing it) to Kenny Rogers and they called me in for an audience, but I declined. The funny thing is I have terrible stage fright when it comes to my singing. Even now, I have people stop me at church or at a ballgame after the National Anthem and ask why I’m not on America’s Got Talent.
The second reason I’m a creative is that I used to be a dancer. Not a pole dancer–my choice of dance was ballet, and I was pretty good at it at one time. I started dancing when I was eleven, kind of old to start but my parents figured I’d quit in a year so why start sooner? Only I didn’t quit. I rose up the ranks to the Second Company of the Marietta Ballet (now known as the Georgia Ballet.) The Atlanta Ballet asked me to audition for them when I was fourteen, and I was given the opportunity to travel to Europe to study with other ballet companies such as the London Ballet. I taught movement and dance to kindergartens during my senior year in high school. In college, I helped start (along with a friend of mine) the dance program which is one of the best in the country now.
Then there’s the writing.
I guess the reason I’ve never thought of myself that way is that I’m a very pragmatic person. I knew I couldn’t make a living from my creativity which is why it was so easy for my parents to talk me out of majoring in writing or dancing. But I am most definitely a creative person!
