Where do I start? Where do most people start with these things..
First off - Let's start with the title of this blog post. "The Dream Behind The Name". I am recently at a newfound place in life where I know who I am and what I want and what I don't want and I want to tell EVERYONE about it!
My name is Emily-Faith.. but everyone calls me Emily, Emmy, Em, Intern Emily, Auntie Em, Brother (there IS a story there) and last but not least - OH MY GOD EMILY!....I get that one a lot.
I work for a small company in the mountains of Tennessee and intern for a nationally owned radio station (shout out to iHeart Radio & Clear Channel Radio!). I landed this radio gig about 4 months ago on a fluke. Ya see, I am a natural entertainer..I am MADE to make people laugh. I call it a gift from God - others call it a curse. That only comes from the ones with ZERO sense of humor. I also have a few other God given traits.. I was born 2 weeks late setting the pace for the rest of my life and I am a QUITTER if I ever met one myself. That is until this radio gig... I haven't quit. I haven't even thought about it.. once I lucked into this thing it hit me like a sack of bricks - "THIS is it.. THIS is what I am supposed to do" I thought. I tell my peeps at the station all the time that when my internship is over I am just never going to leave. They think I am bluffing - they will soon see that I am not. I figure that if I keep the state of mind "this is my only option.." then they will have no other choice than to start paying me one day. Worked for Kyle... didn't it? Boom. Who is Kyle? And Styckman? And Ashley and Joey? Oh.. just the people that unknowingly helped me realize that my dream to entertain isn't as far fetched as I thought. I could gush about them all day.. but we will save that for a later post - when they hire me.
If you have never gotten to experience the feeling of knowing that you know your path in life.. I encourage you to keep looking until you find it. It is the most wonderful feeling I have ever experienced... and being 22 I like to think I have experienced just a few amazing things. A few, but not half as many as I know life will bring me.
So you say I am quiet optimistic? Why thank you! I am. I look at life through rose colored glasses. At my very young age of 22 I have experienced quiet a few horrible, awful, despicable things. My childhood - rough. My first marriage - even worse... but those are things I will get to later. My goal is to reign you into my life as of now, make you fall completely in love and THEN tell you what I came from. I figure it will have a much greater affect that way.
Speaking of love.. It's my favorite drug. From the amazingly talented mouths of Little Big Town...
"I wanna walk that line a little crooked
And live my life a little on the rocksLaugh at everytime I fell
Not afraid to make a fool of myself
And keep on dancin' when the music stops
'Cause I love being in love
It's the best kind of drug
Drunk on the high
Leanin' on your shoulder
Sweet like wine as it gets older
When I die - I don't wanna go sober"
Every line of that passage describes some part of my life. Being 22 I have been known to be a drunken mess and I LOVE being in LOVE. I know.. cliche.. I get it. But it's true. There is no better feeling than knowing that when you just want to be held.. someone wants to just hold you. It wasn't until recently I found love is a two way street and yes- two people CAN feel the same way about eachother. But that is also a story for later. ;) Am I killing you yet?
I feel like I am rambling now.. I planned for this to be a lot shorter, so I will go and let you wonder who I am.. and where I came from.. and why they call me brother and who is on the other end of this "two way love street" and why I love a man called "Styckman" and why I am just now wanting to tell my story after 22 hard knock years of living... that last one - that is a doozy.
Ya'll come back now.. ya hear?
xoxo, em.
