What if...

The other day someone told me I would make a good writer.  I just laughed at them.  Yes, I am creative, but I'm not that kind of creative.  
Well then I started thinking... what if?  What if I was an author?  A singer?  A seriously legit photographer?  What would I write/sing/photograph?
So I sat and pondered, and these are the answers I came up with for my three ultimate dream jobs.


AUTHOR:  I would FO' SHO' write children's books.  I would write about pretty princesses, dastardly dragons, evil witches, handsome princes (oh, the handsome princes!), curious creatures, and far-off fairy filled fantasy lands.  Is it so wrong that I love using literary devices like alliteration, simile, parallelism, and imagery even on this silly little blog?  Just look through my blog entries and you'll see that I use them all the time... sad and pathetic?  Maybe.  Awesomely cool?  Probably.  And there would be beautiful artwork, even if I was writing a "chapter book" as I used to call them when I was younger.  One of my favorite books of all time is The Voyage of the Bassett, and it is a chapter book with some of the most beautiful artwork of any book I've seen with a fantastical story that makes your imagination soar.  That is the kind of book I would write.


SINGER:  I want to be a rockstar and I LOVE to sing... in the shower, in the car, at church, into my hairbrush... everywhere and anywhere.  (Don't EVEN pretend like you don't sing into your hairbrush too or play the drums on your steering wheel...)  I'm not fabulous, but I'm not terrible either (at least I don't think so...).  What would I sing about if I ever became a famous performer?  I would sing about how beautiful each of us are, no matter our differences.  I would sing about mending a broken heart.  I would sing about the thrill of new love, and about the intense longing when it feels like you will never experience it for yourself.  I would sing about feeling good about myself, even on bad hair days, fat days, blue days, pms days, and all the other days in between.  I would sing about Christ, His love for me and my love for Him.  I would sing about the joy the Gospel brings to my life.  Mostly I would sing from my heart, the experiences I've had and the things I want to experience before this life is over.  And I would get paid for it instead of being told to shut up.


PHOTOGRAPHER:  I know what you're thinking...  Kim is already the best photographer I know!  (Just humor me, okay??)  But not everybody thinks that.  SO... if I were a professional photographer with a studio and people recommending me to other people, and people booking sessions months in advance to get a shoot with me instead of me having to beg and plead with people to book me, I would really like to specialize in couples portraiture, and especially in engagements.  For now, I am a renaissance girl when it comes to photography and I shoot everything and anything, but I ADORE shooting engagement portraits.  Those are almost always my favorite shoots.  I love the love that you can see, and the tender moments that I secretly capture in between shots when the couple is unaware the camera is still pointed at them.  Something I've learned recently... shooting kids is hard!!  When they don't want to cooperate, it shows.  I kinda like the challenge though :)




What if... ?