I am a Mommy to a 5 year old little girl and Step-Mommy to a 10 year old boy who are both verbally gifted. These children talk from the time they wake up in the morning to the time they go to sleep at night. They talk to each other, they talk to their friends, but mostly they talk to me. Sometimes they miss talking to me so much that they even talk in their sleep and wake me up in the middle of the night with ramblings that have no meaning, but nonetheless fill my brain. My brain is full of their chatter.
I am a teacher to 6 different classes of 6th graders. These children also talk from the moment they walk through my classroom door to the moment they get on the bus to go home to talk to someone else. Each class is full of 90 minutes of questions. "Do we have a test today?" "Did we have homework last night?" "Do we have homework tonight?" My brain is full of their questions.
I am the adviser of two clubs - Yearbook and Battle of the Books. I am in charge and must make sure we produce a book worthy of the money parents are shelling out. A $45 book should be the best thing you've ever picked up in your life. I also have to make sure my team reads 27 books and can answer such obscure questions as, "In which book did a character wear a red shirt?" My brain is full of designs and pictures and coverage reports and books.
I am the part owner of a new business. The spaces in between all the chatter and noise is full of worry and apprehension. I think about advertising and marketing and the bottom line. Those thoughts like to come visit around 3am and demand my undivided attention. My brain is full of the desire to succeed.
I am the full owner of a wild imagination and ADD. I think of randomness all day long. At any given minute I have Dan Fogelburg and Louisa May Alcott and Jersey Shore enticing me to give them some time. I have questions of the universe and Downton Abbey and Facebook all at the same time. It's like Lord Stephen Hawking posting status updates every minute of the day. My brain is full of distraction.
My brain is full.
