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Though I probably can't top Sadie's words of her previous blog, I have my own story to tell. I was outside in the cold preparing to hang up Christmas lights, (we were like the only ones who hadn't yet.) and decided to change the bulb on the far end of the porch (we have 2 porch lights, this one had been out for a while). So I climb the ladder and pull down the light cover and a cloud of dust and dead bugs welcomes me (bleh, I hate cleaning these things). I unscrewed the old fluorescent light from the fixture and went inside to get a new one. I checked our box to see one last bulb, and as I pulled it out, I noticed that it had an imperfection on it. There was a bubble in the glass. I didn't think anything of it and headed back outside. I climbed the ladder once more and began screwing in the bulb. I gave it 3 quick turns and let go to reposition my hand to finish it, when to my supprise, the bulb fell out of the socket, hit the porch, and shattered into a bunch of tiny little pieces... It took me a second to realize what happened. I grabbed the flashlight I had (it was night when this happened) and shined it down where the light had fell. Sure enough, there was what was left of the base surrounded by little bits of glass. So, for the sake of my dog's paws, I spent around a half hour sweeping and picking up every piece I could see. I had almost finished when a slightly larger piece caught my eye. I reached down to pick it up, and there was the part of the bulb with the imperfection on it. It was completely undamaged, and nor was the glass around it. And then it made me think. (Yes you probably know where I'm going with this). That imperfection, a bubble that was never meant to be, survived when the rest of the bulb did not. I thought a lot about this well after the accident. We all have our imperfections. Me, I'm far from even knowing what perfect is. I'm all the time dropping things due to my clumsiness. And thanks to that, I was able to realize something. Just because you have faults, doesn't mean that they aren't always bad. Your imperfections are what make you stronger, because you learn from them. Don't see them as a weight that will drag you down, but as an opportunity to build yourself up as a human. This was just a little thing that happened that I felt like sharing.

This is a message to anyone who might feel a lack of self-worth or feel that their personal best isn't sufficient. Though you might feel there's nothing you can do to contribute in any way, this couldn't be further from the truth. The reality of it is we're all each unique having been born into this world with unique psychological mapping, which thereafter over the course of our lives is further expanded on/reformed on the basis of our individual experiences and general exposures, in combination with how we process these experiences and exposures, collectively contributing to the immediate form of our neural network. As such, we each possess unique mental strengths and aptitudes that can only ever be further sharpened and improved on with continued practice, otherwise there is a stunting in growth. In other words, we each possess different forms of intelligence. For this reason it's never fair to ourselves nor to the other person for us to base our standards on their ability, or for they to base theirs on ours, as we're all each unique as individuals and develop and progress at our own unique pace as the unique person we are. But it doesn't matter how intelligent you are either, as a person with "lesser" intelligence can be vastly more knowledgeable and skillful than a person of "greater" intelligence simply through hard work and perseverance. You might feel there isn't anything you're good at, but sometimes it takes longer for some people to find what fields of work they're psychologically geared towards. Morever, whatever your contribution, regardless of its magnitude, has the potential to generate a ripple-effect whereby it influences and affects a great many things. For a long time I felt as though I didn't fit into this community, I didn't feel I had anything significant to contribute. This all changed dramatically though around a year ago when I first began my research on the development of the mid-80s Classic Space LEGO Publishing comic book series, Jim Spaceborn. I was amazed at the things I'd uncovered regarding the series, and found research and archival work of this type was something I was fairly good at, so I continued to build on that skill and now I'm quite dead-set on researching and documenting every known instance of retro LEGO comics, storybooks, and animated cartoons in existence as thoroughly as I possibly can, and I won't stop until that dream has seen fruition. So perhaps in time even if you're not sure now, you'll eventually find something you're proficient with and pursue that to the maximum of your potential. I hope this has been helpful. ~Sadie

I got my prototype part from BZPower for sending stuff to BrickFair this year. Not as cool as a mask, but still pretty rad. (I've owned the milky white part since last year) I wonder what I'll do with it...