The day I was walking with then four-year old Caroline, who was already active to the extreme. She would throw herself around the living room, or off of the jungle gym, and loved to wrestle her daddy. Looking up at me with those big brown doe-eyes, she asked me with great seriousness how I thought God might use her gift of tackling some day. Tackling? As in sacking people? I laughed and said I didn't know, maybe she would be a policewoman, or an FBI agent, or something like that.
Not much has changed. She still craves physical activity to the extreme, which is probably due to her Sensory Disorder combined with the bp energy. Thankfully, she has turned into an athlete instead of a gangster! Hopefully she will continue sacking people in games and not in real life situations. I was looking at a list of famous people with bipolar disorder, and so many of them are the composers, artists, actors, singers, and yes even some athletes, whom we would call the greatest achievers in their specialties. There are some real advantages to being a deep feeler. What would we do without Beethoven's symphonies or Van Gogh's art, or Rosemary Clooney's "White Christmas?" I have great hope that Caroline's name will be among top achievers some day, in her own time.
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