1. We all do crazy stuff. Well, most of us do. And for those of you that haven't, maybe you should -- before it's too late. Mind you, there are varying degrees of crazy. The picture to the left highlights one of my crazier, um, adventures. (Nope, I will not divulge which theme room I stayed in.) Take it from me: Probably not the best idea to elope with someone you dated for, oh, 8 weeks. Romantic, perhaps. Smart, not so much. But crazy, yes! (And to make matters worse, do not talk your best friend into doing the same thing -- with his best friend. I am such a bad influence!) Still, if you just can’t help yourself, do yourself a favor. Skip Reno.
2. We all make mistakes. While mankind has discovered how to split atoms and managed to make 450 ton metal objects fly, sadly, we humans have not yet figured out the secret to perfection. Major bummer that we are fallible creatures. For example, while a teen-ager, it was a mistake for me to ‘borrow’ my parent's brand new car before knowing how to drive, drive to the U-District, and then while pulling back into our driveway, crash said car into the side of my house. It didn’t seem to matter at all to my father that I had run out of Dippity-do hair gel & needed to get to Pay-n-Save ASAP. A person's character is shaped in part how they handle mistakes made along the road of life. No pun intended.
3. We can learn from shoes. Seriously, this is fact. You can learn all you need to know about someone by their shoes. Call me what you will: Shallow. Delusional. Whatever! I have a few immovable beliefs and this is one. Shoe-reading is an art and I, my friend, have refined it down to a science. So trust me when I say to stay far, far away from any person wearing puffy black Reebok high-top tennis shoes. You can thank me later.
4. We all have a fatal flaw. And lucky us, turns out we’re pretty clueless about it. While we all have a stronghold of small defects, the flaw I mention is the invisible pattern that holds us back & hangs us up throughout our lives. Without realizing it, we are constantly being given opportunities to work this pattern out. In a strange twist of fate, while this imperfection is usually hidden to us, it can be strangely obvious to those in close proximity. Don’t believe me? Ask someone near &/or dear. Though it’s not always easy for them to put into words, see what they have to say. If they’re aware and honest, what they tell you may change your life. Or it may just really piss you off.
tina signing off.
1. I'm guessing jungle.
ReplyDelete2. You made it all the way to the U-District and back BEFORE crashing the car? Color me impressed.
3. I believe that in a perfect world we would all be barefoot, all the time.
4. Not you. Never! Okay, really? Some of us have a fatal flaw. Others of us just have a host of small, scabrous, sometimes itchy, irritating and infectious but rarely life-threatening flaws.
1. Sorry, no comment.
ReplyDelete2. I know! Shouldn't that count for something?
3. Well, Ms. Hippy Earth Mother, that choice too tells me something.
4. Oh yes, me included! Noone escapes the fatal flaw. After reading about the flaws you describe, I feel so dirty like I need to take a bath.
I reread my post and fell over laughing. It does sound liking I'm describing venereal disease, doesn't it? Makes you wonder what mistakes I might have made?
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