<or "something at which you've been a champion or the best>
I have a rather cynical viewpoint on this, merely because i've been on the up-side of average all my life. I'm a little taller than average, my eyes are slightly greener than average, and i'm a little more physically flexible than the average person. I have a stronger-than-average curiosity...i know this quite well. Sometimes it literally makes me stop mid-step, especially if i've seen something or heard something that needs identifying.
But a lot of times, i will think i'm good at something or that i have been the best, and then i'll go somewhere else or change environments and discover that there are many more people out there with my talent or skill who can do it much better than i can. Sure, i play the piano and i'm good at that. So is everyone else around here. I didn't start piano when i was barely 4 like half of them...i was 6, so they have two years on me. I draw...i won an award for that once. I sing, but just because i like to. All of this stuff i LIKE to do and i am relatively good at. But something that is individually me, that i can do, is hard to come up with. So i go back to the little quirky things that i like to do, that i do well.
Such as reading. I'm a speed reader with the recall of the average person remembering something that happened in their life. I don't read and memorize everything, but i could give you a pretty good play-by-play synopsis of the book when i'm done. What i read, i live in my head, and living something happens fairly quickly. At best, there's no little voice anymore reading the words out loud as my eyes scan each line...i see the story and become a part of it. For me, seeing a word and comprehending are two acts that happen as one, and so i read as quickly as my eyes can move across a page. A 250-pg book takes me less than two hours, depending on the writing style. Reading is definitely something i could brag about...and this seems to be a brag post idea.
Another accomplishment i have, if one can call it an accomplishment, is putting babies to sleep. I don't know what it is about me...perhaps to an exhausted infant i have a perfectly placid and boring personality. No doubt it's some physicality such as my heart rate or the manner of movement i adopt when i'm holding a baby. However, kids in general have always liked me. In high school, i would make up stories for the kids at my church. Kids need to be taken seriously and engaged at the same time to stretch their imaginations even further and introduce new concepts that help them see their world better. This process very definitely involves rough housing and make believe, and i've always gotten on well with that, especially the make belive part. But making a baby go to sleep...who knows.
Now then. I wrote this because it was on the list. I didn't have to, i suppose. Writing is more of a struggle for me now because i don't want to become one of those people who blather on and on and ON about themselves constantly, with no reprieve or change of subject. Those kinds of people are immensely boring and hard to talk to because they tend to stick to one particular aspect of themselves, and it becomes more and more of an effort to actually draw them out so that you learn something new about them. However, as humans, we talk about ourselves because that is what we know best and are most concerned about. It's not necessarily dreadful to talk about yourself...in fact, that's how we get to know people. But there is always a balance to maintain, which is hard.
I should write a post in which i'm champion and the best of an imaginary thing. Like a super power or a magical gift or something quite silly. Parallel universe posts...
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Day #9...
...and another post about, if i were to go on vacation, where i would go.
This time, i'll stick to the United States, since i wrote about Australia last time. As an addendum to that one tho, i'd go to the UK and N. Ireland or to Spain just as readily as Australia.
But America! Land of the free, home of the brave...i could soapbox on the current flavor of those words as pertains to our wretched society today, but i won't. The problem with choosing a spot in the US is that there are so many lovely places, depending on what you like. You could be a kid again and go to Disney World/Land. You could venture into the realm of adventure and scale a mountain somewhere...which i've done actually. I climbed this one with a group of crazy people last summer:
:)
If vacation means relaxing for you, don't try this:
It's being considered for the List-of-Things-to-Do-Before-I-Die, and many people insist that it very well may be the LAST thing i do before i die. But there are two things i want to do as a "vacation" here in the awesomeazing USofA, and one is a road trip...because i can't decide where to go. I might as well see everything, yes?
Depending on where i live when i start, i'd travel in a sort of squiggly/figure eight pattern. Like if i lived in SC, i'd go south first through Georgia and Mississippi, then head up through Texas and Okalhoma...i love not-quite-southwest states. There is so much space and room to breathe. I'd most likely hit New Orleans on the way. From there, i'd go up toward Colorado and Utah. I took time to draw this just for you guys to show an idea of how it would go:
I actually want to get up to Montana and North Dakota too, but my route makes it be out of the way. I forgot to add Route 66 and the Grand Canyon. And the route doesn't go through New Orleans, which is one of the yellow-highlighted spots. But i definitely want to go through a couple of places specifically just to say i've been there. I've been to nearly all 50 states anyway, so perhaps i'd build a road map based on where i've NOT been. Or i'd narrow down exactly where i want to go and then connect the dots...sort of like this:
Either way, it would be a nice trip. I love road trips...going places in general.
My second fun vacation idea isn't really a "vacation" per se, but it's something i want to do. I want to get permission to backpack or ride on horse back across either a national forest (in Wyoming or someplace) or the west-midwest in general. Just ride, like one would bike across the United States...only on horseback, roughing it all the way. My family has done "rough-it" weeks where we just take a tent and food and things and hang out for a week at various sites we find. Where i live, you can actually pull off the side of the road somewhere, anywhere, and camp. We've done that, and i enjoyed it. But to go across the country, living off of the game and vegetation...would it be possible anymore? Or is that too idealistic and naive to attempt...
And of course, there's always Hawaii...i've never been there. Or Alaska...never been there either. So many choices, so little time!
This time, i'll stick to the United States, since i wrote about Australia last time. As an addendum to that one tho, i'd go to the UK and N. Ireland or to Spain just as readily as Australia.
But America! Land of the free, home of the brave...i could soapbox on the current flavor of those words as pertains to our wretched society today, but i won't. The problem with choosing a spot in the US is that there are so many lovely places, depending on what you like. You could be a kid again and go to Disney World/Land. You could venture into the realm of adventure and scale a mountain somewhere...which i've done actually. I climbed this one with a group of crazy people last summer:
:)
If vacation means relaxing for you, don't try this:
It's being considered for the List-of-Things-to-Do-Before-I-Die, and many people insist that it very well may be the LAST thing i do before i die. But there are two things i want to do as a "vacation" here in the awesomeazing USofA, and one is a road trip...because i can't decide where to go. I might as well see everything, yes?
Depending on where i live when i start, i'd travel in a sort of squiggly/figure eight pattern. Like if i lived in SC, i'd go south first through Georgia and Mississippi, then head up through Texas and Okalhoma...i love not-quite-southwest states. There is so much space and room to breathe. I'd most likely hit New Orleans on the way. From there, i'd go up toward Colorado and Utah. I took time to draw this just for you guys to show an idea of how it would go:
I actually want to get up to Montana and North Dakota too, but my route makes it be out of the way. I forgot to add Route 66 and the Grand Canyon. And the route doesn't go through New Orleans, which is one of the yellow-highlighted spots. But i definitely want to go through a couple of places specifically just to say i've been there. I've been to nearly all 50 states anyway, so perhaps i'd build a road map based on where i've NOT been. Or i'd narrow down exactly where i want to go and then connect the dots...sort of like this:
Either way, it would be a nice trip. I love road trips...going places in general.
My second fun vacation idea isn't really a "vacation" per se, but it's something i want to do. I want to get permission to backpack or ride on horse back across either a national forest (in Wyoming or someplace) or the west-midwest in general. Just ride, like one would bike across the United States...only on horseback, roughing it all the way. My family has done "rough-it" weeks where we just take a tent and food and things and hang out for a week at various sites we find. Where i live, you can actually pull off the side of the road somewhere, anywhere, and camp. We've done that, and i enjoyed it. But to go across the country, living off of the game and vegetation...would it be possible anymore? Or is that too idealistic and naive to attempt...
And of course, there's always Hawaii...i've never been there. Or Alaska...never been there either. So many choices, so little time!
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