You know the most important thing to do if you want to be a writer? Practice. And yet, you get home from a long day at work and you know the last thing you want to do is sit down and write. Me too. Until I signed up for Writing 101 – WordPress will sent a prompt every weekday for the month of April.
Day Six: “Who’s the most interesting person (or people) you’ve met this year?”
I hate girl dates. You know when you have to meet someone who you’ve only seen in photos. In photos my boyfriend’s best-friend’s girlfriend always looks amazing. Not a hair out of place, smiling, well-dressed, skinny.
Basically she is everything I think I want to be, and now we get to go on a double date. I think I was less nervous the first couple of times I met my boyfriend.
But, I am an adult, I will suck it up and we will hang out. And it’s a good think I did. She is great – vibrant red hair and blue eyes that match her outgoing personality.
She is talkative, like me, often speaking up and filling the void left by are sometimes-all-too-shy boyfriends. And at first glance I find her incredibly confident, but like most things there is more that meets the eye.
I realize some of her stories are less because they are a defining moment, and not to make people laugh or share some insight, but rather to cover up a vulnerability. She wants us to like her, she is as nervous as I was. As time has passed, my nervousness has disappeared, but her vulnerability hasn’t gone away. It’s interesting how we can believe something of others (in my case believing appearance means everything) and yet forget how human we all are.
[Not my best post by a long shot, but it’s late and I am tired. Apologies]
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