Fitting in the Mold

 So apparently when one gets to college they are required to become a blogger. Who knows maybe this will be a good thing that will allow me to remember things years from now. When I asked my friend if I should start a blog her response was, "Yeah. They are fun if you have something to say." Well I don't know if I have anything truly significant to say, but this is a good excuse to avoid homework right? This same friend told me that I fit "the mold" here at school. Now ask any of my siblings and they will tell you that I have never fit any type of mold my entire life. Growing up I always felt like I didn't belong in this day and age. While everyone was playing with Pokemon cards I was watching black and white movies and reading Doris Day's biography. I practically grew up in Barnes & Noble. To this day I feel more at home in a book shop then I do anywhere else except on stage. While all of my friends were crushing on Aaron Carter and Justin Timberlake, I was falling in love with Gene Kelly and Gregory Peck. My older sister Alyssa and my brother Danny made sure to let me know that they thought I was adopted because as the saying goes, "One of these is not like the other." I have always wished that I could grow up in the 50's. I mean the clothes, movies, manners, basically everything was better then. Now honestly this could be a result of the fact that my favorite person in the world was my Grandma Jolley and I would choose hanging out with her over people my age any day of the week. Now, back to the "mold." I have never really understood this concept. I feel as if we are all so completely different that the only mold we could all fit in would be Children of God and that is it. Sure I attend a small liberal arts university that is made up mostly of LDS students and I am proud to be a Knight, but I can honestly say that even here there is a widespread variety of people. Some people joke that we go to SVHS rather than SVU because there are still the same cliques one would find in High School. You have the typical jocks, the theater kids, band geeks, over-acheivers, kids whose parents applied for them, etc. One of my favorite quotes comes from Judy Garland: "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." I believe that we all have our own molds that Heavenly Father made for us to fill and we strive to fill them to the best of our ability everyday. No one can ever fit into the same mold as someone else, but we should all learn to love the "molds" of others. So in closing, this is me. Just a book nerd, theater kid, Shakespeare junkie, TCM movie watcher, old fashioned girl trying to find her own "mold" in this crazy thing we call life.