This is Me - Dude
This is a post included in the This is Me series where I answer 1001 questions about myself as writing practice. Each post consists of me answering 5 questions about myself. Wanna share what you would answer to any or all of the questions? Do it in the comments section!
Do you believe in miracles?
Yes.
What kind of person deserves your love and affection?
This is a weird question. Mark 12: 30-31.
What is your favorite photo of yourself?
One? No way could I ever choose. There are so many special photos I can think of even right now that hold a special place in my heart because of the time in my life that they represent. It has less to do with me and liking how I look in the photo and instead has more to do with the fact that I cherish the memory that was captured. I feel blessed and privileged to have so many of those from throughout my life.
What would your catchphrase be?
I have thought about this question for a very long time and couldn't come up with anything. So then I asked Paul what is something I say all the time and he said, "dude." And it's true, I do say that a lot. LOL. But it's not really a catchphrase.
After I thought some more about it, I determined that I don't really like it when someone says the same thing over and over, it gets kind of annoying right? And that's technically what a catchphrase is...something someone always says.
I do think I have maybe a catch-attitude though...maybe a general way I respond to things all the time that might get annoying - being optimistic or playing devil's advocate. I think this stems from the fact that I don't really like complaining and usually when someone around me is complaining, I tend to want to instantly give the "other side" credit, which obviously can be very annoying to people. So even though it may seem like a good thing to normally see the positive or other side of a situation, I do need to stop and realize that diving right into that may not always be the ideal response especially right away.
What is your least favorite photo of yourself?
I'm sure I've probably deleted it.
Juuuuusssst kidding.
In all seriousness though, every time I see a photo of myself that makes me go, "YIKES!!", I stop and tell myself, "hey, this is how you look probably most of the time to other people and they still like you and they still think you are worthy to be friends with etc. So calm down and get over it."
I know that may sound weird, but I promise, it helps. If you think about it, we don't see ourselves nearly as much as other people do. It's probably some really high percentage actually - like others see us 80% more often than we actually see ourselves. Of course there are bad angles and people may miss that brief moment of time that was captured poorly in a photograph, but how you look in one specific second of your entire life shouldn't define how you think about yourself. Sometimes you just gotta acknowledge it and then move on to better things.
