LaTeeDa

I heart you, too FP1!

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FindingPeace1

Sometimes I THINK too much when I could FEEL and DO more.

appalachiacat

Hope this thread continues. I'm not ready to communicate yet but really love all of your self-portraits by poetry. You are all so beautiful.

lillamy

Thank you for bumping this thread, appalachiacat -- I had forgotten it and quite enjoyed reading it again!

MsPINKAcres

i love this thread - i hope it keeps going. . .

LaTeeDa

I forgot about this thread, too. And I started it, lol! I remember now I started it because someone joined with the name "cutelittlewife," and I wanted to start a thread about who we are, not the roles we play.

Anyway, I'll add some:

I am passionate.
I am at peace with myself.
I am just getting started with life, at the age of 50.

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Learn2Live

I no longer know who I am, after 2 and a half years of living with that A&A person. One part of my personality that is finally coming back and I noticed just today, is:

I am goofy.

I hope that is enough for now. And I hope to come back soon and be able to add more to my list. I've spent way too much time over the last couple years hiding in my bedroom from the crazy person.

LuvMySis

It would be much better if you would give an example.

LuvMySis

I, too, feel like life is just getting started for me - at the age of 54. However, it feels like life is still just around the corner, like I have just one more hurdle to go. But I can't figure out what it is. Hard to explain.

StarCat

I am amazed I had figured out so much about myself so soon after leaving XABF. I guess because I had shoved all of myself away, it was like those overstuffed closets in cartoons where once you open it a crack, everything comes pouring out.

My newest rediscovery is that I love music, and I enjoy technology.
I have a PS3 - I'll play racing games online with my new boyfriend, or I'll play other games alone by myself.
I listen to everything from classical to soft rock to pop to techno to non-heavy metal, and I love all of it. Pandora is my friend.
I have a new cell phone, after resisting until the old one started literally falling apart, and as a result I'm going to give my old GPS to my mother (since the phone can do that and also has traffic reports), I get to listen to soothing classical on the way to work to help combat the stress I find once I get there (and I'm getting headphones today so I can listen at work, too), I have a few thinking games that help me relax once I get back home (to take my mind off the stress I went through at work), and I can quickly check things online without booting up my laptop (meaning I spend more time NOT on the computer, since once I'm on the computer I figure I might as well spend more time there because it takes so long to set up).

My latest thing to work on is that I take things too personally at work. It's my manager who has the issue, not me, and even when he makes it personal I need to remind myself that it isn't personal.
This is all while searching for a new job, of course, but in the meantime I am working on finding healthy ways to survive the one I have.

theuncertainty

I'm still having such a hard time with this.

I'm a Sci-Fi and Fantasy reader/dreamer.
I'm a self-declared Math geek who forgot that.
I'm quiet.

I need to work on:
Acknowledging my strengths and promoting myself, being my own cheerleader.
Ignoring that voice that really isn't mine that tells me I can't, or am not good enough; for all intents and purposes, he is gone and his voice should be too.
I am impatient with my healing.
I do not sleep well, or keep any kind of schedule.
I am too hard on myself.

I want to be:
A great Mom for my amazing DS.
A fearless, hands-on home- and garden- improver, like my Dad.
An artist and/or writer - creative.
Rested.
Serene.