When I was a kid, I thought spacing out was God putting me on pause for a moment, just to check where I was.
Like a divine catch-up. Let’s see where Marie is at today.
I also thought languages were codes I could figure out by rearranging the letters. And I would sing Disney's Aladdin's songs, trying very hard to crack the code so I could be singing them in English (my first language, and therefore, the language of my disney movies is french).
I knew from a very young age that I would never get married.
I was also convinced I once saw Daniel Radcliffe smiling at me in a car on a highway on the way to Brittany. The same day I saw a bear in a forest we were driving fast by.
I thought my bedroom would forever be covered with posters of Lorie.
I was sure the world would one day discover a hidden natural talent in me, and that it would mean moving to New York and singing on stage for a (huge) living.
Every year, I'd knew the next one would be the one I finally got thin.
I miss that feeling of certainty in the magical quality of the future.