All of my sayings will make so much more sense to you after you've read this story. So, please, do read it. For God knows our generations needs to read more anyway . . Ok, as Drake would say, "HERE I GO!!" (lol)
For Sparky, school was everything but impossible. He failed every subject in the eighth grade. He flunked physics in high school, getting a grade of zero. Sparky also flunked Latin, algebra and English. He didn’t do much better in sports. Although he did manage to make the school’s golf team, he promptly lost the only important match of the season. There was a consolation match; he lost that, too.
Throughout his youth Sparky was awkward socially. He was not actually disliked by the other students; no one cared that much. He was astonished if a classmate ever said hello to him outside of school hours. There’s no way to tell how he might have done at dating. Sparky never asked a girl to go out in high school because he was too afraid of being turned down.
Sparky was a loser. He, his classmates . . . everyone knew it. So he rolled with it. Sparky made up his mind early in life that if things were meant to work out, they would. Otherwise he would content himself with what appeared to be his inevitable mediocrity.
However, one thing was important to Sparky – drawing. He was proud of his artwork. Of course, no one else appreciated it. In his senior year of high school, he submitted some cartoons to the editors of the yearbook. The cartoons were turned down. Despite this particular rejection, Sparky was so convinced of his ability that he decided to become a professional artist.
After completing high school, he wrote a letter to Walt Disney Studios. He was told to send some samples of his artwork, and the subject for a cartoon was suggested. Sparky drew the proposed cartoon. He spent a great deal of time on it and on all the other drawings he submitted. Finally, the reply came from Disney Studios. He had been rejected once again, another loss.
So Sparky decided to write his own autobiography in cartoons. He described his childhood self – a little boy loser and chronic underachiever. The cartoon character would soon become famous worldwide. For Sparky, the boy who had such lack of success in school and whose work was rejected countlessly, Charles Schulz. He created the “Peanuts” comic strip and the little cartoon character whose kite would never fly and who never succeeded in kicking a football, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown’s pet Beagle, the sarcastic and depressed white dog named Snoopy.
Someone asked me the other day, "Who/what inspires you?"
First thing that popped into my head was CHARLES M. SCHULZ aka SPARKY.
R.I.P. CHARLES M. SCHULZ
GO VISIT THE PEANUTS WEBSITE: www.snoopy.com or just click on the pics I've provided links on all of the above. =]
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