I am a big fan of personal development. I work hard in my life to find ways to improve and lead a more productive & peaceful life. But there are some things I have decided to embrace since I am 30 and they haven’t gone away. These things include, but limited to the following:
1. Crying when I say good bye to loved ones. I love the life I live, BUT it comes with some drawbacks. One of them being that I will never live close to everyone I love which brings up the issue of having to say goodbye. I never have been good at goodbyes, but I have started making myself not avoid them as much because of the tears that tend to escape from my eyes when I say them. IF I am able to hold them in while saying the actually goodbye, trust that they are flowing as I walk away. I decided on a recent trip when I was leaving my family and the waterworks were slightly out of control that this is one of those things I need to just embrace as it doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon.
2. Not packing light. No need to give me all your tips and suggestions- trust me, after traveling as much as I have in my life, I already know them! I have heard them all. I even spent a whole summer when I was 14 with only 32 pounds of stuff (though it MIGHT have been slightly more, the guy weighing my bag had a crush on me and let a few pounds slide) including clothes, toiletries, laundry detergent, a shovel, and winter jacket so I know that I CAN pack light. BUT I will never again be a light packer. First of all, I need to look nice, second of all, I refuse to wear ugly shoes. My dad used to tell me a man should travel with me before he marries me to know what he is getting into, but on this last trip when he was heaving my seriously overly heavy bag into the back of Rusty to take me to the airport, he said, “You know Elizabeth Taylor traveled for
years and never packed light either.” I finally felt like I was understood for the first time. Tear.
3. Wearing my emotions on my sleeve: This kind of goes along with #1, but it is not always just at goodbyes. If I feel the need to cry, I can’t stop it. This is very unfortunate in certain situations like at jobs, when someone is trying to manipulate me and I should be bluffing, or when someone else is having an actually crisis and I am just disappointed. BUT it can’t be helped and
thus after 30 years, I am just going to embrace it. And warn anyone around me that you might have to too. This also means that if I find something funny, I have a VERY hard time suppressing my laughter which can be unfortunate when it exposes my extremely immature sense of humor. If someone talks about balls, cracks, doing it, or if anyone accidently lets out a fart when they were trying to hold it in, I can’t contain myself.
4. I am and always will be a hopeless romantic: Last year, my boss used me as a guinea pig for some personality tests that he wanted to use for a bigger group. I took the first one and when the
results came and the first sentence was, “You are a romantic to your core” I quickly wrote him that this was a great and very accurate test. : )
5. I will never be able to walk by a cotton candy stand and not be able to resist it. Unless it is pre-made or purple. But if it is fresh, fluffy, pink or blue (or in the case of when I was in China- white), I have to buy it! I have had eaten cotton candy in almost every country and city I have visited.
There you have it folks.
1. Crying when I say good bye to loved ones. I love the life I live, BUT it comes with some drawbacks. One of them being that I will never live close to everyone I love which brings up the issue of having to say goodbye. I never have been good at goodbyes, but I have started making myself not avoid them as much because of the tears that tend to escape from my eyes when I say them. IF I am able to hold them in while saying the actually goodbye, trust that they are flowing as I walk away. I decided on a recent trip when I was leaving my family and the waterworks were slightly out of control that this is one of those things I need to just embrace as it doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon.
2. Not packing light. No need to give me all your tips and suggestions- trust me, after traveling as much as I have in my life, I already know them! I have heard them all. I even spent a whole summer when I was 14 with only 32 pounds of stuff (though it MIGHT have been slightly more, the guy weighing my bag had a crush on me and let a few pounds slide) including clothes, toiletries, laundry detergent, a shovel, and winter jacket so I know that I CAN pack light. BUT I will never again be a light packer. First of all, I need to look nice, second of all, I refuse to wear ugly shoes. My dad used to tell me a man should travel with me before he marries me to know what he is getting into, but on this last trip when he was heaving my seriously overly heavy bag into the back of Rusty to take me to the airport, he said, “You know Elizabeth Taylor traveled for
years and never packed light either.” I finally felt like I was understood for the first time. Tear.
3. Wearing my emotions on my sleeve: This kind of goes along with #1, but it is not always just at goodbyes. If I feel the need to cry, I can’t stop it. This is very unfortunate in certain situations like at jobs, when someone is trying to manipulate me and I should be bluffing, or when someone else is having an actually crisis and I am just disappointed. BUT it can’t be helped and
thus after 30 years, I am just going to embrace it. And warn anyone around me that you might have to too. This also means that if I find something funny, I have a VERY hard time suppressing my laughter which can be unfortunate when it exposes my extremely immature sense of humor. If someone talks about balls, cracks, doing it, or if anyone accidently lets out a fart when they were trying to hold it in, I can’t contain myself.
4. I am and always will be a hopeless romantic: Last year, my boss used me as a guinea pig for some personality tests that he wanted to use for a bigger group. I took the first one and when the
results came and the first sentence was, “You are a romantic to your core” I quickly wrote him that this was a great and very accurate test. : )
5. I will never be able to walk by a cotton candy stand and not be able to resist it. Unless it is pre-made or purple. But if it is fresh, fluffy, pink or blue (or in the case of when I was in China- white), I have to buy it! I have had eaten cotton candy in almost every country and city I have visited.
There you have it folks.
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