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The Real About Me

So it's nearly midnight on a Tuesday night and I've spent the last 45 minutes of my young life writing, rewriting, listing, deleting, further rewriting, and ultimately giving up on the About Me section of Facebook. Now, I realize this is not time well spent but if you really think about it you try to cram all of who you are in this dinky little box. This is what you are presenting yourself as in 6 sentences or less. I understand trying to hit the main points and giving people a general idea but there are just some things you can't put into words. Most of these are things inappropriate for a little blurb about yourself. People want to know, quickly, everything you are in about 50 words. But what about the things you can't put into words? Where do they belong? What if you like to simply enjoy a nice day, the saturation of spring time color, or how the few people you've let in closest to you mean more to you than any favorite sports or music you may list. The thing that struck me as the hardest is I feel like I simply cannot choose which things are most important to define me. So here's a small shot at what I feel like is the real about me. I thoroughly believe that "life is a terminal condition". Once one can accept the fact the everyone dies, life becomes so apparent. Its like when you were in grade school and you could eliminate constants in math, death is life's constant. It is so sad to me when people are diagnosed with terminally ill conditions and it makes them jumpstart their life. I would hope that everyone would be living to their fullest all along. I want to soak in as much of the world, as much of life, as I can. It goes beyond traveling and experiencing every up and down in life. I want to get to know people. Real people, not "about me's" who identify with things in their life that can be put in bullet points. I want to know people's fears, and hopes and what their favorite thing in the world is. I am scared of turkeys, hippos, and not living life to the fullest extent. I hope to one day be surrounded by people who are as aware of true life, true meaning as I hope to be. And my favorite thing in the world is seeing old people who have been together so long and are still incredibly in love with each other. I don't care if I ever jump out of a plane, to me that's not living life to its fullest. Its about what and who you surround your life with. I believe in connecting with people. I care about the small details my grandma used to tell me about her child hood. Like how they were so poor they put rags into the cracks in their house just to keep the wind out. And how they made lard sandwiches because they had nothing else. To me, its the things that draw out the most true emotions in a person that qualify living. The human experience is about emotion, feelings. A lot of the time people misunderstand over emotion with a true understanding of emotion. Like when you watch a sad movie or read an uplifting and encouraging story, it goes beyond understanding the situation and feeling compassion. Its like feeling it yourself. You're not crying because other people are crying, but rather crying because you understand the emotion and feel it so strongly in yourself. So my game plan of life involves doing crazy things and trying everything I possibly can, but what I hope to take away from it all is the understanding of the human emotions. Emotions are something that every person experiences, it links people in a sense of interconnectedness. So what better way to have the human experience, than to experience the real things that connect all people, feelings are our common denominator.