day 6: something you would like to change about yourself
If I could change anything about myself, It would be my energy level. I have a lot of fatigue, I have for years. I've been poked and prodded by doctors who usually pronounce that it is all in my head, but it really isn't. This would be right up there with getting rid of my migraines - I suspect they are linked.
If we are talking about more personality related things...I suppose I could stand to be more disciplined. The thing about personalities are that often those things we identify as our weaknesses are intrinsically linked to our strengths. I'm a bit of a dreamer - and that is a good thing in my mind. It gives me a lot of creativity and the ability to see different ways to solve problems, but the flip of that is that I tend to live in my head a little. So, although I try to be better at implementing my ideas I am reluctant to wish any of my attributes away.
It is the same with people we love - often those traits that make us love a person the most are the source of the things about them that irk us the most. This is why I don't think you should try to change your partner - those things we would change if we could would often mean the loss of those things about the person who make them who they are. Part of loving someone is accepting all those things about them that make them who they are. For instance I love Eric's passion, but I hate his stubbornness. But those two attributes spring from the same source. I can work too ease the stubbornness, but to get rid of it would intrinsically change who he is, he wouldn't be the man I fell in love with.
If we are talking about more personality related things...I suppose I could stand to be more disciplined. The thing about personalities are that often those things we identify as our weaknesses are intrinsically linked to our strengths. I'm a bit of a dreamer - and that is a good thing in my mind. It gives me a lot of creativity and the ability to see different ways to solve problems, but the flip of that is that I tend to live in my head a little. So, although I try to be better at implementing my ideas I am reluctant to wish any of my attributes away.
It is the same with people we love - often those traits that make us love a person the most are the source of the things about them that irk us the most. This is why I don't think you should try to change your partner - those things we would change if we could would often mean the loss of those things about the person who make them who they are. Part of loving someone is accepting all those things about them that make them who they are. For instance I love Eric's passion, but I hate his stubbornness. But those two attributes spring from the same source. I can work too ease the stubbornness, but to get rid of it would intrinsically change who he is, he wouldn't be the man I fell in love with.