1. A theme you may notice in the MM more often than others is "the road not taken." It fascinates me to no end the way one single decision can change the course of one's life. To think, if I hadn't gone there that day I'd never met her, or if I had only waited for the phone call, or I am so glad I didn't get on that plane that day. Can you think of one single decision you made that changed the course of your life. A decision where if you had done something else, everything would be different now?
Yes. The decision not to fight my parents on where I went to college. If I can had gone to a college out of state to pursue my theatre degree, I could have very well started my pro theatre career mch earlier and been able to fulfill a lot of my goals. But alas, I was not to be so lucky as they pretty much said hell no. Ahhh, the smell of support. But on the flip side, had I not satyed behind I would not have accomplished a lto of what I have. The road you didn;t take....
2. Or maybe you think "the fates" have it all planned out for us. Do you think every life has a pre-determined course, that we will wind up at point X regardless of the decisions we make?
Yes and no. I think some things are fated to happen, i.e., meeting someone, but I also think that you have two courses and paths to take and that your decision affects how fate with deal with you. I like to think there is some combination of both pre-chosen and free-choosing...could be the control freak part of me. But I have had many instances in which I can;t explain how something has happened, i.e., meeting someone whom you never think you would connect with.
3. This train of thought leads, of course, to relationships. I personally do not believe in "soul mates," but many do. I can't deny that some people are just right for each other. However, there are plenty of other relationships that crash and burn because it is not a good fit. Do you think that it is that left up to us and random chance to decide who we are with? Are we are guided to the person we were meant to be with or could you be with the wrong person while "the one" is still somewhere out there?
God this topic can get confusing. I think there is such a thing as a soul mate, however, I don;t think that it always ends up being the person you fall in love with and marry. I think it can be a friend. I do believe that sometimes fate can draw two people together, two seemingly opposite or similar people who come together in the oddest of situations. There are some friendships whose origins I just don;t question because they happened so oddly, but they have been some of the best relationships I have had.
4. At the 4th of July parade, I saw this fella with a HUGE beer belly. That right there is enough to make me swear off beer! I am not a beer drinker. I've never liked the flavor. As a college kid I drank my share, but I had to learn to tolerate the flavor, and only could if the beer was icy cold. It was never refreshing, it was always a means to an end. It used to be fun, or what I thought was fun then. Things have changed a lot, and as I've aged my tolerance has lowered and it doesn't take much to make me drunk, so I just avoid it. Do you like to drink and get drunk? When was the last time you were drunk or hung over? What was the occasion? How did it feel at the time? How did it feel the next day?
LOLOL. I don;t drink, I never have outside of small sips to reinforce the fact that I hate it, I don;t like being around people who drink nevertheless when they are drunk, and I am totally against people geting drunk. Did I mention I am against drinking?
5. On the same topic, have you ever done anything you regret while "under the influence?" What happened? Do you remember it or did you have to be told?
This would be pointless since I have never been under the influence. However, one time I think I did get drunk on water. It was so strange.
6. I am guessing many out there won't have answers to the above two questions. I wish I could say the same, but I thought it was "cool" to drink and do all those things because all of my so-called "friends" were doing them too. Were you/are you able to resist peer pressure in school/college? How? If not, what did you do that you wish you hadn't?
Yeah, I able to resist it a lot because I just didn;t give a shit. It didn;t matter to me what the majority was doing because I had the power and control over my life and myself, not them, to have given in would have transferred some of the power to them and once someone has an in, that is it, they can use it to their advantage. Plus, I was never one for compromising my ethics and morals for other people.
7. What things are better left unsaid?
I love you.
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