Embellish
The illusions of creative truth-telling
Ever since I was little, I’ve embellished.
Embellish: Proto-Indo-European root meaning ‘to do, perform; show favor, revere’.
I guess this means I was always a doer, a performer, someone who saw the best in everyone and everything. Which makes sense.
To make sure people loved me in all my aspects: this was, and still is at times, my goal.
My mother recently sent me a screenshot of an ‘About Me’ from when I was in elementary school. The accompanying text message read: My imaginative girl!
Of all of these ‘facts’, only some are actually true.
First of all, I had dirty blonde hair and hazel eyes. But we can look over that one, I was 7-and-a-half after all.
I did not have any pets.
I hated math.
I could not do sports if my life depended on it. I actually refused.
Besides this, everything was true.
There were plenty of things I actually loved that I could have spoken about.
