"If you believe in faeries, clap your hands". "Clap them real loud". Ok! enough about me. Here we go.
I wanted to the share this blog about my mentor. The wizard who showed me my own power.
The power to create my own world A world where happy endings rise from pains and suffering.
The power to show your own path.
My mentor for a large part of my life!
J K Rowing!!, otherwise known for showing her world of wizards, Hogwarts and Harry Potter.. Lets start with a happy ending excerpt.
From the very beginning of wanting to make movies, to become a director, or just to write a script, it would be for myself, the very art of story telling and creating a world where you can escape.
A world that never lets me down.
The world of writing.
Getting to know about JK thru the years, I researched constantly the life of Rowling. Always sharing her success of each Potter book.
When I came to Hollywood as I began to look for my own path, who would have known that I would get to work at Warner Bros in special events and attend so many of the Potter premiers?
JK and myself had and continue to have so many things in common. These are the closest ones for me.
Clinical Depression
Abusive relationships (both physically and mental)
Failure
Taking chances.
Extreme belief that something larger and better watches over your souls and the bigger the belief the larger the gift.
Have Endured and continue to endure extreme criticism
Life does not list itself in order of achievements
Dreams happen!
We own the power!
As I would read about JK and the abused relationships that she endured, I would get strength from her battle through her stories.
I would get strength from the three generations of my friends that died from AIDS and I am still here.
I realized that the number of frogs I kissed to find my moments in my princes would have covered me from head to toe. Hence my attraction to the word "Hogwarts"
The clinical depression was a sleeper, I could not understand why I could not stay happy on a consistent bases and there were those moments of contemplated suicide.
But hey, would I consider that because I would never find out how my own story ended?
I would have to keep being reborn again and again and coming back to earth over and over before I figured it out.
When you take chances, you never want to fail. No one wants to fail. But, you fail if you don't try.
Just living and the amount of failures that we both have endured in life only taught us that we were stronger than imagined. We never give up.
We never gave up!
If we never experience the setbacks we would never recognize the success.
They made me who I am today as a person and I have not one regret. I would never change a thing!
When you find that mentor that gives you the strength , the hope or just the magic to carry on then you become your own realization of your gifts you have been given
You look for one that encompasses you, someone that is similar. When you find that mentor you know is a guide, an angel, a stronger version of yourself. You find you way even closer to that realization we are in this together.
Like JK, I continue to create and express myself to anyone that listens. Its my way to connect with the ones I choose to connect with on this magical journey.
Just like the Wizards wand tells us, you can conjure up the magic and "Poof". it appears. Just like JK never really could let the world of Wizards and Hogwarts go away. Rowling will release this year: Harry Potter: A History of Magic – The Book of the Exhibition will allow readers to explore the curriculum of Hogwarts, and Harry Potter – A Journey Through A History of Magic which will cover subjects like unicorns, alchemy, and ancient magic.
I learned so strongly that you have to share the power of your voice for the ones who cannot.
That you have to speak up for the ones who have not gotten to this level. If you don't use the power you have been given. If you don't exercise that muscle, it will shrivel and wither away like the children of Slithering.
So lets end this glimpse of JK and myself and listen to one of us who endured failure and it consumed her. Her passing showed us our own strength and continues to be a daily mantra.
Live-Live-Live.... Cheers! I share my joy to those that listen.