Everyday Canvas

Best Moments and Mistaken Identity

For "Blog City Prompt Forum" 
Prompt: Make a list of the 10 best moments of your life.


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1. When I was three and a half, I read my first full sentence, and my Grandmother said it was all correct. I was so delighted that I can still feel the joy of it, as if today.
2. Whenever my cousin and I were together…We were, still are, best friends. We cried so much when separated that my uncle ended up letting her stay with us over all her vacations.
3. When all my cousins and I went walking and a sudden rainstorm drenched us thoroughly
4. When I was fourteen, a famous poet shook my hand for some poem I had written.
5. When someone I liked a lot, likened me to Edelweiss, a flower that grows on the higher elevations of the Alps. He said that in a very special way and in the middle of a large crowd of people, including my family.
6. When a whole group of profs were impressed with my thesis.
7. When I met my husband and we went places together.
8. When I had my older son
9. When I had my younger son
10.When my younger son brought his girlfriend, now his wife, to meet us for the first time.

I must be so lucky because the list goes on and on, and there are other happy moments in between the ones I highlighted.

For: "Space Blog Group" 
Prompt: Today's star system is Donkey Hoetay .
This author has a story about "mistaken identity". "Invalid Item" 
Have you ever been the victim of mistaken identity? Tell us about it.

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I can’t ever remember being a victim of mistaken identity.

The only one thing I can think of is, when I was in third grade, a kid told the teacher, in a very convincing tone, that I was responsible for another kid falling down and hurting himself while he was fighting with yet another boy. The teacher didn’t believe him and other kids told her, although I was near the incident, I was standing with them and had nothing to do with the fight or that kid getting hurt. Funny, I should still remember this so vividly after more than six decades!

There are so many ways of looking at this incident. What if the teacher believed that kid and what if the other kids didn’t tell the truth? I would get a detention and would be turned off from school for life and maybe never be able to go ahead with my education.

Also, the kid who accused me would be hurt internally as well as the teacher (had she believed him and didn’t investigate further) because up to that point, she thought I was one of the best in her class. In hindsight, I think she was very astute and knew about kids.