Okay - if you know me personally you know better right? Well apparently Jenny and her sweet husband Brad were talking about how long we have been friends, and Brad commented that he thought I was Careful and Patient....When Jenny got off the floor from laughing her guts out, she asked him if he really believed that.
Well I have known them for a little more that 12 years, in fact the first time I invited them over it was to watch the Super Bowl. So either Brad is dumb as dirt (no, I don't think that) or somehow that is what he sees when we are together (lost at Lake Powell for 6 hours). How great is that! I like that someone sees me as I would like to be but probably won't be until after I die. Long after.
This made me laugh hysterically when Jenny told me but then to really think about perception. We think we present ourselves to the world, but who speaks the same language? Surely my husband and I sometime seem to be confused with each other, or the kids, or what about the ward member who I think I know her name but have never really had a chance to talk to her. Do I choose to think the best of those I think I know? Do they think the best of me? Or is it somewhere in the middle?
Anywho... this has been on my mind of late and I thought maybe it would help to put it on paper, of course no one may understand the ramblings but....
I figure if Jenny is having Epiphanies so can I. So I guess I will list this as #1
See here http://http://www.bjdentonfamily.blogspot.com/ If you want to see hers.
Except I am not the deep thinker she is so maybe I will only have one.
3 comments:
just be patient and careful, and they'll come. And me, a deep thinker? I thought you knew me better than that! I'm just patient and careful!
I thought maybe Brad was describing me not you or Jenny. Maybe Brad is just blind and deaf
I am sure the construction workers outside your home only think and imagine the best of you:)
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