the universe is conspiring to shower you with blessings
TAURUS: Our ancestors owned slaves and denied education to girls. What were they thinking? *Time* magazine asked renowned historian David McCullough if there was anything we do today that our descendants will regard as equally insane and inexcusable. His reply: "How we could have spent so much time watching TV." I'll ask you, Taurus, to apply this same exercise on a personal level. Think of some things you did when you were younger that now seem incomprehensible or ignorant. Then explore the possibility that you will look back with incredulity at some weird habit or tweaked form of self-indulgence you're pursuing today. (P.S. It's an excellent time to phase out that habit or self-indulgence.)
Uncle Rob, I'm pretty sure the highest in this box will always be these two:
1. Keeping myself from the ability to cry from around seven-eight until my early twenties. Which, even with getting closer to being able to cry freely now, almost a decade after setting to reset this erroneous but well-meant choice in my tiny!self, still makes me incredibly confused to why anyone considers crying cathartic. I acknowledge that the grand populace says it is so, and thus it must be, but I cannot recount one time in my life for you where crying was.
2. Buying books or comics with my lunch money and eating nothing for breakfast and lunch for nearly all of my high school years, resulting in a staggering ability to go long periods of time without realizing I haven't eaten and never once feeling hungry. This is high on the list of things I would march back into time and smack myself upside the head for. Even if, yes, the books were glorious.
I still don't cry for long. And you will still find my buying food bill at the bottom of everything else I could possible pay off or need to get. But I am still working on them all.
Uncle Rob, I'm pretty sure the highest in this box will always be these two:
1. Keeping myself from the ability to cry from around seven-eight until my early twenties. Which, even with getting closer to being able to cry freely now, almost a decade after setting to reset this erroneous but well-meant choice in my tiny!self, still makes me incredibly confused to why anyone considers crying cathartic. I acknowledge that the grand populace says it is so, and thus it must be, but I cannot recount one time in my life for you where crying was.
2. Buying books or comics with my lunch money and eating nothing for breakfast and lunch for nearly all of my high school years, resulting in a staggering ability to go long periods of time without realizing I haven't eaten and never once feeling hungry. This is high on the list of things I would march back into time and smack myself upside the head for. Even if, yes, the books were glorious.
I still don't cry for long. And you will still find my buying food bill at the bottom of everything else I could possible pay off or need to get. But I am still working on them all.