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My friend did baby modeling when she was...well, a baby. I can imagine her at that age: giant blue eyes, downy baby swan hair. Casting directors oohing and aahing all over her and other stage moms fuming in a secret jealous rage. Further removed, older stage moms standing with their teenage daughters, waiting in line for modeling auditions for teens, and hoping that the adorable baby cooing in the audition room will grow into a gawky, awkward teenage girl with crooked teeth and everpresent elbows. Of course, she did not, and she still has those giant blue eyes that blows everyone away at the theatre auditions she goes to. She has an electric personality and an uncanny, unconventional attractiveness that probably would not get her cast at film auditions – though she is very photogenic – but melts stage directors to butter. Of course, who knows? She does not really do the movie auditions thing now; she plans to move to California soon and try her luck there, so we’ll find out. Maybe her unconventional look will translate well to film. Maybe she is the next Scarlet Johanssen. And yet her real love is, or was once, the violin. She was practically a virtuoso in high school, one of those kids who practices for hours a day. She adored playing the violin. She had long lithe fingers that danced on the strings. Problem was, she also played sports – basketball. She broke a couple of those long lithe fingers during a game and was never able to play the violin the same way since. She is still good, but she was once incredible. She is still lovely to listen to, but she once had the potential to be a really remarkable violinist, could have played with a big name orchestra somewhere, probably would have been first chair one day. She had the drive for it, the love, the hunger. What she was born with, though, are those giant blue eyes. She is not going to lose those in a basketball game. It is just strange to think that it is not what she loves the most; that performance, in the acting sense, is one of her loves, but it is not the love – and she could have done what she really loves most, she had the chance, and it’s lost now. She does fine with that knowledge, outwardly. I wonder how much she thinks about it, though.