Moments that are authentic can never be reproduced. You've got to make your own moment. Things work the first time and everything else is a copy. Jerry Springer

This isn't always true, especially making movies. Practice either makes perfect and fresh, or it's a one-take kind of director. I admire someone who can take the same words and make them fresh each time. It's fun to see the outtakes at the end of the DVDs now.

I do think you have to make your own moments. Moments don't always fall into your lap. I can think of at least two things, more actually, where actions I took (or open doors I went through) changed the course of my life. If I hadn't made those moments, I'd be in a different place, and I'd be a different person.

I think all my life I've been copied to one extent or another. Or, let's say, I'm not a follower. Ouch. Sometimes I laugh because I am either a trend setter or so far behind, it is new again. A small example is that for a while now I've liked to wear multiple bracelets, either ones I've beaded or been given. That way I get to enjoy them. If it is around my neck, I can't see it. My 9 yo is wearing about 50, literally, plastic bracelets on her one arm. She got these at the skating rink trading her coupons, and then others gave her theirs. I say she looks like me only moreso.

Suddenly every major designer, jewelry or clothing, in trendy department store catalogs is showing multiple bracelets or a bracelet that looks like a multiple. I was first -- or I was behind!

It is a compliment to be copied unless it gets out of hand, as it did once, but then she moved, so it stopped.

Growing up in the clothing business, it was good to be copied. It meant they'd shop with us. And maybe even the few times I went on buying trips as a child, opened my eyes to realize the next new thing that would be hitting the stores in the next season. So I was already ahead of the game in newness or at least in recognizing that things would not always stay the same. Change was the order of the day.

I know of some folks who won't even tell what fragrance they are wearing, because they don't want anyone to know for whatever reason(s). I always like to ask. It's interesting to me to hear it is a fragrance that smells completely different on me. I know no matter how many times I try it, it wouldn't be my signature scent as it is on them. I've never run into anyone yet who was wearing a niche fragrance or anyone else who layers up like I do though I know others who have.

Everyone's life holds authentic moments, even if it involves following a trend. It's your life, live it as you wish! Make it your own. Who cares if you are first or not, or if you simply march to a different drummer? We only go round this world once, so be sure to eat all the chocolate the first time around!

Which are you? a follower? a trend setter? march to a different drum? All, at various times? Which do you feel most comfortable with?

Karin

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