5 Things You Don’t Know About Me
March 1, 2007 by thinking girl
I got tagged by Max at The Freeslave. I already did this one, but I’m feeling chatty today, so I’ll give you 5 new tidbits.
1. I used to be really artistic, in my youth. I could draw just about anything, and I played piano and saxophone, and I sang pretty well too. I’m trying to get back in touch with it, when I have the time.
2. I almost died during my own birth. I was breech, and they couldn’t turn me in time (poor mom!), and when I was born I couldn’t breathe because my feet were wrapped around my neck. I think this is why I’m an only child.
3. Crazy runs in my family. So does alcoholism. Sometimes I can see myself going down both those roads, if I let myself. Which is why I don’t drink all that much.
4. I trust people way too easily, I always try to make things work, and it almost always bites me in the ass.
5. I haven’t fallen in love in 10 years, and I don’t remember what it was like, being in love. I wonder if I’ll ever fall in love again. I guess that’s up to me!
Now, the tag part. As usual, I don’t mind being tagged, but I don’t much like tagging others, so I’ll leave it up to you - and if you don’t have a blog, just leave the answers in the comments section!
I’ll second numbers 3 and 4. I think it’s better to live a trusting existence and get burned repeatedly than be suspicious. Get burned and trust anyway. Mother Theresa said as much, and she seems like a woman who might know a thing or two.
And beers in my fridge always call out to me. They don’t live there for long. Just as well.
Hey Sage - damn, but I’m sick of getting burned! It’s a cruel world, people just want to take advantage of a person’s kind-hearted nature. I don’t want to keep on getting burned, but I also don’t want to stop being a nice person. And you’re right, the alternative - being suspicious all the time - sounds downright awful. Bah. Maybe the trick is to be MORE nice and kind and generous.
Thinking Girl:
Here is a possible solution. If it doesn’t work for you ’s’OK.
Don’t abondon trust but run suspicion in a seperate track. I am nice and generous to the point of driving my friends crazy, but at the same time I push the people I am helping, or assisting or being nice to. I feel many people are out to con you but accepting that go ahead and help them anyway, but with firm limits and demands of respect from them. Not much just a thankyou or some such. Sometimes I do things anon. so I don’t get into the habit of waiting for credit.
Anyway works for me. Mileage may vary in different models.
As for the alcohol / chemical, I have never felt the driving need that many have. I can get blind drunk and not touch a drop for a year after just because I didn’t go to that kind of event. I don’t drink at home unless it’s a sore throat at bedtime or I can’t sleep which doesn’t happen often.
Steve
Steve
Steve - I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks for the suggestion - be suspicious of people’s motivations, but don’t let that stop me from being my kind-hearted self.
You know what? The last person we can describe well is we ourselves. It’s very very true for me.