Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.
I really like Amelia Earhart. She's from Kansas. She disappeared, so I have to take her place. I want to be Dorothy. I want to be Amelia Earhart... I want to do it all.
I used to worry that if I wasn't having a dynamic life, then I wouldn't have anything to talk about.
Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know.
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.
I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'
Our experience of many life circumstances is a function of our personal perspective and not the circumstance itself.
I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'