Haven’t done one yet, but I’ve enjoyed reading everyone’s insights since Dan started this Friday ritual. There are some absolutely beautiful human beings here.
I don’t know if Karen Read is guilty or not, but the folks I’ve personally encountered out in public from the “Free Karen Read” sphere were a little Quirky, from my experience.
Since I’m already typing…
1. I assume you mean romantically, and if so, it just does. Or doesn’t. Or does, then doesn’t.
2. I already pay to do the job I’d do for free. Dad.
3. Fate? I’m 1000% anti-religion, pro-spirituality. For myself. What others experience is different. By extrapolation, even the difference of experiences and views shows we’re all too different.
If it’s some kind of cosmic brain game that a supreme entity keeps adding humans to keep from getting bored controlling all our lives…whatever controlling entity existed would have even less imagination than any of the humans it was manipulating.
4. As with everyone, too many to list. This one is foremost in my mind, though.
My ex-wife carried and delivered our two children by c-section. The first was after 23 hours of labor and no other options. She shares custody and kids’ expenses 50/50 and the work she’s done on herself the last six months and shared with me has rebuilt a lot of the broken trust which dissolved our relationship in the first place. That’s all pretty f***ing cool, if you ask me.
5. Standing, actually. Leaning on a window frame in my sunroom. Looking out at the seven raised beds I still need to winterize, the 30’ stump of the maple that came down in July, and the top part I also still need to cut up. Chainsaws are fun, but there’s just never enough time or good weather when I have time.
I don’t regret home ownership and I never want to live with neighbors above or below me ever again, but sometimes I do wish there was a landlord I could call and tell them to fix it.