From second grade to fifth I was dead-convinced I would one day be a vet…. Then my guinea pig died on Christmas. There went that little dream cloud.<\/p>\n
The guinea pig death really threw me outta whack and I began to descend in a pit of depression, and things only got worse…<\/p>\n
I was convinced I was Nancy Drew for a while… I couldn’t solve any mysteries. -dream dead-<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I thought I was this amazing fashion designer who would one day own her own label… I only copied existing clothes… and broke my sewing machine… -moved on-<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I convinced myself (and my sisters and cousins) that fairies were real and we would be the first to catch one…. they all discovered that I was the one who wrote all the tiny notes from the ‘Fairies’… -kaput-<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I believed that (by some miracle from only God himself) that I could actually be a WMBA star…. I fainted after jogging half the mile in gym… -shot down like a mad cow-<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n And the worst one yet… I really truly believed that I was born a pirate and that any day a ship would be sailing toward me to bring me back to the family that was truly mine… My sister called me a loser when I confided in her and I realized I couldn’t be a real pirate…because a real pirate would never be called a loser…<\/p>\n I know, some people are probably thinking that these were normal childhood fantasies and that there was absolutely nothing wrong with me. And yes, in second grade it is normal\u2026 I was 14…. and fantasies like these were no longer childhood whimsies, these became full-fledged delusions that took place over a span of only one month.<\/p>\n Yes. That was a normal month in my life…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From second grade to fifth I was dead-convinced I would one day be a vet…. Then my guinea pig died on Christmas. There went that … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7JFoP-zoey","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7011,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/7011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}