Getting to know you....
Comment and I will:
- Tell you why I friended you
- Associate you with something (fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.)
- Tell you something I like about you
- Tell you a memory I have of you
- Ask something I've always wanted to know about you
In response to (in bold, but also including the rest so it is part of your own journal)...
a. why I friended you:
because I knew we were going to be great friends the first time we met. I wanted to read your journal, this is great I love being nosey.
b. associate you with something:
medium
c. tell you something I like about you:
you are very compassionate, and you have a great understanding for others. You're a really good listener, and you've helped me a lot because of this. This is just one something. There are a lot of others.
d. Tell you a memory I have of you:
I told you about a tough, terrible turning point in my life, and you were one hundred percent there for me, and it was really cool to be able to tell you guys about that and feel okay. (And Saturday was awesome, but you already took that answer!)
e. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you:
what decision have you made that you are most proud of? How would your life be different had you chosen differently?
f. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours:
from like 2003 or something. cute. adorable.
Most proud of? Wow... interesting question.
I think I'm most proud of the choice I made to become personally responsible - to recognize that I am solely responsible for my own life, happiness and past. Yes, other people can have an effect, but largely their ability to have that effect upon my life is because I accept their influence in the first place.
Anyway, that was the decision I made that I'm most proud of, even though it's been difficult for me to adhere to it at times. It's so easy to just let other people be responsible for your happiness, wellbeing, esteem... but so much more rewarding and validating to be able to recognize your own worth and values for their own sake and in a deep, sincere way.
As for how my life would be different, it's obviously impossible to say for sure, but I'm of the impression that I'd be wallowing in homelessness, depravity, drug abuse and self-hatred... probably abusive relationships would litter my past and sexuality, from each to the other in many forms... I was on a very bad path for a time there. I'm glad to be away from such behavior.
Thanks, Kathryn; it's nice to take a little stock in my choices and find that I'm largely proud of myself when I look back. And these other kind words of yours... so very generous and warming (so warming I feel a little "medium"). Merci beaucoup.
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