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A meme again–two parts are new to me

January 31, 2008 By pia

There are two new 3WW’s below this. The second one is better and shorter, Dawg with coat of shiny hair 🙂 The other blog is a true WIP. We’re not having a good day in anyway. It’s Groundhog Day at The Savage house–and probably will be for a few days or the rest of our life.
UL asked me to do this. I don’t tag people. If you want to do any or all feel free.
Five weird things about me: that will be hard. Five places that I would like to visit or visit again. Five things I never imagined at 25. I’m going to begin with that one.
Five things I never imagined at 25:
1) Blogging–that there would be this amazing new way of communicating I would earn a right to have a love/hate relationship with. By extension the entire Internet. I do love it so much and have to take breaks from it.
2) That two thirds of my friends would die of a disease I couldn’t imagine–and the “sexual revolution” of the 70’s to mid 80’s would turn into lectures by me and all my friends on condom use. I miss the freedom I felt at 25. I miss feeling invincible and conversely that early death is normal.
3) That I wouldn’t get married again but live with more men. And that my father would encourage me to live with rather than marry. Nor could I imagine that the man I was divorcing would become somebody who would give me incredible opportunities. I knew when I was eighteen someday his talents would shine. I was in a distinct minority.
4) That there would be an American president far more dangerous than Nixon or Reagan. And that the blogosphere would play an important role in diffusing his power. I did imagine a race between a Black male and a woman. I didn’t imagine that Jewish mothers would forbid their children from even thinking about becoming president or becoming doctors.
5)That meeting my birth mother would become a reality–and that I wouldn’t like her.
I have to add a sixth: I never imagined that I would be in my 50’s and feel young and that almost anything is possible

Five places I want to visit or visit again
1) I have been to England and Scotland many times and never tire of it. I am half Irish by birth and fear going as I don’t know my county of origin. I will get over that.
2) I want to revisit my youth and let myself see what people really thought of me. Then I want to redo parts of it. I don’t believe in wallowing in regret but I regret not having the confidence I should have had–and I regret always riding the easiest or curviest roads but never the middle. Then again I wouldn’t be me so…
3)I have always wondered what it’s like to see New York for the first time. I hope to come back many times as a tourist.
4) I want to revisit my innocence and see the world through fresh unjaded eyes.
5) I would like to visit the future and make sure the young girls I know live wonderful lives and so do their descendants. I hope that America becomes a country to be proud of again.
Five Weird things about me
1) I guard myself fiercely. For when I let people take advantage of me it’s conscious, and based on either the fears that dyspraxa/NVLD wrought in me, or misguided idealism.
2) I feel guilt over almost everything yet that has never stopped me from saying the most outrageous things
3) I’m a compulsive photographer. This is something I never could have done before the digital age.
4) I have always, and will always, look for the meaning of life in song lyrics.
5) I’m an incurable optimist. I do believe that tomorrow will be better. I believe that America will find its way. I believe that I will be a “later in life” success and that people won’t find that too weird.

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Comments

  1. UL says

    February 1, 2008 at 11:06 am

    oh Pia, thank you so much for revealing yourself, in such wonderful layers, I liked the way you reversed the meme and told a story, all about you. I am glad we encountered in the blogosphere….I hope you will get to go to your roots one day, there’s nothing like being in the land of ancestors…thanks again.

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I live in the South, not South Florida, a few blocks from the ocean, and two blocks from the main street. It's called Main Street. Amazes me too.

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As my mother said: "know the streets, look out and you'll be fine."

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Then I hated everything about the suburbs. Yet somehow I lived in a few great Long Island Sound towns after high school.

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