Seed tomorrow with wise reflection today!
As a child, Lucille Ball was reserved and inhibited; however, wanted to try her hand at show business. When she was 14 at Manhattan’s John Murray Anderson School for Dramatic Arts, her instructor said she “was a tongue-tied teenager spellbound by the school’s star pupil, Bette Davis,” telling her mother she was “too shy” to ever be successful.
Her mother became a widow when Lucille was four and moved the family near her intensely “puritanical couple” step-grandparents who influenced her self- image. For example, concerned with vanity, mirrors were not present in the home. Like all of us, she and her brother’s childhood experiences continue the story of those who raised us. Lucille reflected:
Children internalize their parents’ unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.
Determined, Lucille pushed forward and I Love Lucy was born in 1951. An immediate hit, it become the most-watched show in America by the following year. Lucille reflected:
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn’t think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn… When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.
In every sense of the word, Lucille was a trailblazer. The red-headed actress is perhaps best known for her role as klutzy, accident-prone Lucy Ricardo from the hit series; however, her long list of accomplishments extends well beyond her talents on screen. Lucille reflected:
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
She was clear and verbal about the fact that she could not tell jokes. Her facial humor and story- telling acting are legendary.
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
When she died in 1989 at the age of 77, she left behind a legacy of admiration for generations of actresses, humorists, comedians, and people like me.
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