What My Logo Means

It’s not easy to come up with a single picture to sum up your entire being.

Often times, you’ll either draw, redraw, scrap, then redraw various pictures over and over again, and still not be able to find something that sums you up all neat and nice-like with a plump purple velvet bow.

When I was little, I was into the whole “drawing hearts, stars, and rainbows” all over my notebooks, binders, and all sorts of other papers.

But then I had an idea. If I had something, like a tiny picture or a logo, then people would know that I had been there without actually having to sign out my name. My logo could do it for me.

On one early morning in high school, before homeroom began, I took to the whiteboard and picked up a black marker. But I didn’t draw anything – not at first. I stared at the blank board, unsure of where I should even start. Should I begin drawing at a corner? One of the sides? The middle?

Shaking my head, I just started to draw. First, I drew a heart. Nothing grand about that. So I began shading it in. Then, I added a star in the middle of the heart. But it still didn’t look right. I thought about birds, how they had so much freedom to fly around, go wherever they wanted to go, unburdened by mountains of homework. I added great big wings to carry the heart away.

The logo was looking better and better. Yet, believe it or not, something was still missing. I erased my logo when the bell began chirping throughout the concrete building and took my seat. Throughout the day, my thoughts strayed to a world I had created when I was knee high to a duck. It was a world of magic, adventure, and a place where I was in charge of things for once.

The light bulb burned bright over my head in a snap of inspiration. I quietly pulled out a sheet of lined paper, redrew my logo, then added a small crown floating above the heart. I smiled at that finishing touch for the rest of the class.

As the years drawled by, this logo represented everything I wanted, needed, and lived for. This is how I want to be represented.

The current logo I’m using for this website still holds tightly onto that wish to fly above the clouds and the love and compassion I have for others, but now the winged heart is flying toward my star; I’m flying toward my dreams and desires. I just hope someday I  get close enough where I can put that crown back where it belongs.