I am often accused of being an air head. (I'm not!! I swear I'm not!!) I was curious about why every one calls me an airhead so I decided to do what any self respecting person with internet access would do... I googled it!

First, I came up with the candy.


I don't see any physical resemblance. I'm not packaged in plastic and I don't come in fun colors. And I'm pretty sure I don't taste like watermelon or cherry. (Someone would tell me if I did... wouldn't they? What if I actually do taste like watermelon or cherry and no one has had the heart to tell me?)

Then, I tried urbandictionary.com. There were a bunch of really good definitions, some of which were accurate and some of which were not.

Less Accurate:
Oral sex on an airplane. Interesting idea though.

What about 70% of people on the earth can seem like. Since I'm obviously not like the common rabble..

More Accurate:
Someone who acts, speaks and functions without thinking
Ahh.. Then it gets to the heard of  the matter. I have been told  five thousand fifty four times before that I need to think before I act, speak, breath.. Sometimes, I've gotten into trouble for speaking and acting before thinking. Actually thats a lie.. I get in trouble all the time. (You don't get to be the patron saint of pink elephants for nothing!) But the point is.. Because I am horrible impulsive does that make me an airhead?



I've been told that I need to change. A part of me wouldn't mind avoiding those hairy situations that happen when I forget something or say something bad. The other part of me likes my airheadishness because there is a certain level of freedom that come with being an airhead. The freedom comes from the honesty of acknowledging the pink elephant or tripping cause I wasn't concentrating on what my body was doing.

Society need those airheads who say and do all the wrong things because we get things flowing in a discussion. We are the people at the really awkward social gatherings who are remembered for the silly things we do and say to create conversation. (We've all been there.. used an amusing anecdote about that girl who fell flat on her face at high school graduation.. and the guy who screamed "OH SHIT" really loudly from the stunned and quiet audience, to create conversation at an awkward dinner party or work function.)

We are like the fiber to get conversation flowing in a constipated social situation. Added bonus if you come in a fun fruit flavour!

All of my life I have had a love affair with the written word.

I devoured books, magazines, even the backs of the toothpaste bottle. I wrapped myself up every night in my blanket and a good book. Sometimes I drowned in my books, falling so deeply that hours and hours would go by before I was able to crawl back to reality.

But it has only been in the past few months that I have truly begun to grasp the POWER of the written word. The written word is the closest that you can come to a pure thought in a physical form. By putting something into writing your thoughts are suddenly physical entities to be used by anyone or seen by anyone.

A word on a page is infinitely more powerful that a word in the air because a word on a page exists for as long as the page does. A word in the air exists for as long as the sound vibrations hang in the air. After the vibrations are gone one is left with only the memory of the word -- not the physical word.

Words on pages can be distributed and seen by anyone. For better or for worse.