DNC- the new self-help
Like a lot of people I've been watching the DNC this week and though it is political I can't help but feel like I've gotten a good dose of life coaching from the speakers. Anyone else feel like they are watching a self-help seminar? I mean that in the best possible way.
I loved when Joe Biden quoted Lincoln as his VP acceptance speech "put your feet in the right place and stand firm." Or when Hillary quoted Harriet Tubman " If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If they're shouting after you, keep going."
I have to say this year I've never felt more hopeful and inspired as I have been watching Ron Paul and Barack get funding from every day people in hopes that our country can be won back.
In unrelated news we are still unpacking and putting things away. I'm still adjusting to being here. Last week I was totally cool with leaving Brooklyn, this week I feel a little pang of sadness for the city. I knew it would come eventually, as I'm a creature of habit and tend to miss the weirdest things. Its the same feeling I had when I left WV for NYC two years ago. Yesterday I realized that I couldn't just walk out the door and go to the store or hop on the train and be anywhere. I cringed when Josh said going to town was usually a 3 time a week venture. What? only three? Is there a bus?!
Our life in NY was very isolated even with the millions of people around us. We were living literally and figuratively on an island of the two of us and I think we both loved the anonymity that we had there.
Me and Josh are both type B personality, but occasionally have spurts of type A. I think its hard to be less outgoing in an outgoing world. I'm not sure if this is true, but I've always heard that American's value charm, wit and being outgoing more than anything else. I've always wished I was more type A because I hate being called "shy" or "quiet". I've never felt like I was either of those things towards people that I know, because I'm not. I just never had the natural ambition to talk to the ear off of a stranger.
I was joking with Josh last week that I'm a bad first impression person. We laughed that I'm more of a fungous that grows on someone. Hopefully less gross and invasive. I guess I feel vulnerable about the idea of being sized up or figured out so quickly upon meeting and usually fidget or make bad jokes. When I worked at POCC in new york, I was quickly coined "the shy/nice white girl" but after awhile they stopped seeing me as just shy, but as someone who is outspoken and can have a good time. I'm not sure why it takes me so long to feel warmer and comfortable around people, but I eventually get there.
I loved when Joe Biden quoted Lincoln as his VP acceptance speech "put your feet in the right place and stand firm." Or when Hillary quoted Harriet Tubman " If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If they're shouting after you, keep going."
I have to say this year I've never felt more hopeful and inspired as I have been watching Ron Paul and Barack get funding from every day people in hopes that our country can be won back.
In unrelated news we are still unpacking and putting things away. I'm still adjusting to being here. Last week I was totally cool with leaving Brooklyn, this week I feel a little pang of sadness for the city. I knew it would come eventually, as I'm a creature of habit and tend to miss the weirdest things. Its the same feeling I had when I left WV for NYC two years ago. Yesterday I realized that I couldn't just walk out the door and go to the store or hop on the train and be anywhere. I cringed when Josh said going to town was usually a 3 time a week venture. What? only three? Is there a bus?!
Our life in NY was very isolated even with the millions of people around us. We were living literally and figuratively on an island of the two of us and I think we both loved the anonymity that we had there.
Me and Josh are both type B personality, but occasionally have spurts of type A. I think its hard to be less outgoing in an outgoing world. I'm not sure if this is true, but I've always heard that American's value charm, wit and being outgoing more than anything else. I've always wished I was more type A because I hate being called "shy" or "quiet". I've never felt like I was either of those things towards people that I know, because I'm not. I just never had the natural ambition to talk to the ear off of a stranger.
I was joking with Josh last week that I'm a bad first impression person. We laughed that I'm more of a fungous that grows on someone. Hopefully less gross and invasive. I guess I feel vulnerable about the idea of being sized up or figured out so quickly upon meeting and usually fidget or make bad jokes. When I worked at POCC in new york, I was quickly coined "the shy/nice white girl" but after awhile they stopped seeing me as just shy, but as someone who is outspoken and can have a good time. I'm not sure why it takes me so long to feel warmer and comfortable around people, but I eventually get there.
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