I Wonder

I think everyone has a time in their life when they feel different, or even like the odd man out. I remember one of my children when he was very very young looking out the window of our house. I asked him what he was looking at and he asked me, "Mommy, do you ever wonder what everybody is really like? Like are they like us do you think?"

I think those kinds of thoughts might escalate some in our teen years and hopefully level off as we mature, but what would it take to convince you completely?

What would need to happen for you to believe that what you thought, no matter how strange it might seem to you, was really not so awful, or different by world standards?

If you wrote a book and sold a million copies? If you wrote stories on the internet that consistently had over 10,000 people read them every month? If you had a television show that became a great hit?

I wonder.