What jobs have you had?
Grocery store bagger/cashier/merchandiser
Call center customer service
Retail
Executive assistant/general problem solver
Manufacturing office jobs (order entry, planning, shipping, etc)
Student
Tag: #bekind
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Do you remember life before the internet?
Do i remember reading maps to navigate, scouring encyclopedias for research, the card catalog, having to memorize phone numbers and addresses, and having to rely on books and actual conversation with other humans for entertainment/engagement?
Yes, i do.
As useful as the internet is, do i miss those days?
Yes, i do.
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What are you good at?
In short? Solving problems. 😉
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If you question your sanity, that means you have to be at least partially sane. Right?
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I first learned about diaphragmatic breathing when I was 15 or 16. All i knew about it at the time was that it helped to keep you calm. Didn’t know why or how, but it worked, so i incorporated it into my life.
I can’t even say when, but it just became a habit of my body, and i didn’t think anything of it until recent years. I found that not everyone breathes this way, and it can be alarming to people who see you sleeping and your chest doesn’t move. Recently, i have learned all sorts of spiffy stuff about the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system, mitigation of the fight or flight response, and various improvements to the functioning of several body systems.
I was thinking about it today… is not breathing diaphragmatically a learned behavior? If you look at just about any other mammal – dogs of course, come to mind first – when they’re just chillin, if you watch, their belly is what moves, not their chest/ribs. I wonder how babies and small children breathe. I don’t have either, so i’ve not had the opportunity to observe for myself. But if they do breathe from their belly and not their chest, that makes me lean toward the idea that it is learned behavior.
if that is the case, why? Why would we, as a species, teach our offspring to breathe in a way that is sub-optimized for the way our body systems function?
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What is the difference between philosophy and spirituality?
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Have you ever broken a bone?
Yep.
I fell off stage during an improv skit and broke my elbow on the concrete floor. I guess i decided to run with a completely different take on the whole “break a leg” thing. 🤷♀️
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What sacrifices have you made in life?
Holy loaded question, batman!
Seriously, how the hell is any normal person supposed to answer this? Granted, they’re not always life and death type sacrifices, but we all make sacrifices. Every day.
You sacrifice a few hours of sleep for chatting too late with someone you’ve been missing. You sacrifice going out to dinner to stay home and polish that big proposal for work. You sacrifice the decadence of your favorite desert in favor of losing that last 5lbs. You sacrifice your time, your desires, your energy/attention – all depending on what matters most to you in that moment.
And that’s not even considering the big sacrifices – the life altering ones. I think this question should be a little more specific, like asking about what big things you sacrificed in the past year. Just sayin. 😉
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When i was a kid, my dad told me that my favorite candy – the soft caramel bullseyes with the cream center – were essentially just melted sugar with a thick cream frosting in the middle. Which is, for all intents and purposes, true.
So, i took some sugar, heated it up, and poured the bubbly goodness into an ice cube tray, figuring i’d fill them with frosting when they had firmed up some.
And firm up, they did. Into rock solid, glass-like chunks of mildly burnt sugar.
I was devastated. And I couldn’t even say why because then i’d have to explain what happened to the ice cube tray, and relive the heartbreak in the process.
Any mention of the need for a candy thermometer would have spared me this suffering, since we didn’t have one.
Details matter.
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What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today?
My tattoos. 😝
A Peculiar Cerebral Tangle 