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I've come to realise that the most intimate and fulfilling relationships are those based on sharing rather than listening.  So with that in mind I've decided to share something of myself and also hope to learn something of you.  So I've got three questions for you and also for me: 1.  What's the hardest thing about being you? 2.  What's the easiest/best thing about being you? - Now I'm not really interested in false modesty here so just say whatever comes into your head. 3.  What's the thought that spends more than its fair share of time in your head? I think the hardest thing about being me is balancing the internal and external worlds;

Two people left my work the other day and in their speeches at the morning tea we put on for them both of them wished everyone good luck with their careers.  This really struck me.  It seemed to me when I was receiving similarly platitudinous words of encouragement when finishing school that these would end, well, as soon as we entered 'the real world.'  But it seems it is not so.  I never really realised the constant sojourning that life really is.  I guess I always thought that there would simply be a goal, an end, and you would work to that through school and then arrive.  But alas such is not the case.  There is no permanency.  It is a co

I often find it very interesting to think about what society considers to be the perfect person.  What qualities should people possess in order to not only survive and reproduce but to reach their potential in whatever field they choose? It's interesting to see how things change with time.  For example in our grandparents time, things were much more conservative and, well, old world.  There was a strict heirarchy to life and there were strict do's and don't's.  Consider especially Pride and Prejudice. In Native American culture, the somewhat aloof and dreamy type thinkers were very much revered.  This, however, has almost completely disappe