Hindsight About Hidden Creative Parts

"Time spent with a cat is never wasted."

Colette

My Renaissance Man brought home a black cat with golden eyes.  It will sit and stare at me and from time to time the eyes increase in a glow of bright yellow auras.  I must mention that it is ceramic and has an electric wire for the eye effect, but nevertheless, it unnerves me.

This black cat with intense eyes reminds me that my sense of self-consciousness is often self-generated.  There is no reason for this innate object to bother me, and yet it does.  This makes me question how many other areas of my life have preconceived ideas about who is judging me.  

In my profession I excelled with confidence and accepted criticism as a way to improve, but in my personal life, I wished to hide creative parts of my lovely self.  With hindsight, I feel rather certain that others would have found my creative imagination to be more entertaining than my career accomplishments.