Bad Day

Today I learned the importance of not letting a bad day interfere with your interactions with people. If you have understanding friends, they'll, you know, understand and then it'll be okay. But you can't always count on everyone being so understanding. Which I suppose means you're lucky if you have understanding friends.

I also was very aware of the starkly different relationship I have between certain people and it made me realize...the more you have to reinforce the things you have in common, generally the less close you are with someone. The more you're comfortable with knowing you have things in common and can spend time discussing other things...that's a sign of a real, close relationship. Meaning - the more you have to "prove" to the other person that you have a connection, the less real that connection is. By the way, this particular paragraph is not about anyone reading this blog - I am certain of that.

There is a mysterious green line in the middle of my computer screen. It's more annoying than interfering, but I hope it doesn't turn into anything worse. I am learning that it is probably not a good thing to have, however. Hmmmm.

Self

Yesterday I saw myself as myself. That might sound very vague but it makes sense to me.

Birthday

Today I learned that I have great friends and also that birthdays are sometimes a little scary.

Friday night and yesterday I learned about heroes. And actually, I've been learning about heroes for far longer than that. I learned that the ordinary hero is the best kind.

Unsure

Today I learned something important about myself. I learned that the reason why it sometimes feels to me that I am talking too much is because I'm so used to being very quiet.

Except sometimes it really does feel like I have a lot to say. Which...I think is okay?

Practical Thinking

Today I learned that I'm a practical thinker. I think this is a good thing. It doesn't mean I have no imagination because, duh, hello, this is me we're talking about - my imagination is overactive if anything. It just means I'm also down to earth. You know what? I'm satisfied with that.

I also learned that sometimes having only four and a half hours of sleep can be detrimental to one's health. (But, oddly, there are plenty of times where I get this amount of sleep - or less [such as when I'm helping SJ pack] - and I feel perfectly fine)

These Past Few Days

...I've learned to stick to my principles and loyalties from all directions.

The Wild West

Today I learned:

1. I live in the Wild West. For real.

2. Some girls really are crazy. A family friend dated a girl who was so insane over being careful about every little thing she did, she would do things like...not move her left foot before her right or something weird like that, and she wouldn't move things in certain directions...I don't even know. But a big rav in Williamsburg was the one to finally tell her to just relax. Yeesh!

3. The Weiss family has a blog (but I'm not sure how public they want it to be which is why I didn't link to it on my main blog. I don't think very many people actually read this one). But for anyone who does want to read it, they have a really interesting story and I think the blog will be really worth reading.

4. I'm seem to be the teen drama mediator in my family.