I am posting this very late, it's nearly not Tuesday anymore, but I really wanted to participate in this Tuesday hop! I think it's a great premise for some fun posts.
I chose TRUTH, rather than Dare.
"Tell us 3 things about yourself that isn’t common knowledge about yourself."
This is actually hard to answer, because I’m
a pretty open book! It’s hard to think
of quirky things about me that NO ONE knows, because most of my quirks are out
there (my anxiety issues and what I do to deal with them is pretty common
knowledge, though that would have been GOLD if I had of kept more of it to
myself, LOL). I’ll pick whatever I can
that maybe only my CLOSEST friends or family know, and hope that will
suffice. I’m just not a secretive
person; I’m too chatty for that, hahaha.
1) In high school I was once compared to Monica
Geller on Friends during one of
those, “which TV character are you most like?” conversations… Friends is one of my favourite TV shows
of all time. I have
always loved this comparison, and sometimes I’ve wondered – am I like Monica
naturally, or did I love that comparison so much I’ve almost purposely
continued to act more and more like her?
It isn’t like I said to myself, “I should do more Monica-like things”,
but at times when I watch Friends
repeats I start to wonder… am I purposely acting like her now, all these years
past that comparison and her relevance as a TV character? It’s blurry to me whether I was just like
her from the get-go and would have continued to be into my adulthood, or if
I’ve become like her more after that comment back in high school.
2)
I’m incredibly self-conscious. I have a boisterous attitude and often throw
myself into joining things, but on the inside I’m constantly wondering if
anyone actually wants me there, if I’m speaking too much, and if everyone is
always annoyed by me. Sometimes I feel
wilted on the inside, worrying so much over what others could be thinking. Fortunately I’m able to talk myself out of
those feelings often enough to keep joining in, but it doesn’t stop the
self-conscious “does anyone actually like me or want me here?” thoughts from
happening. I know I can be chatty and
vocal, but at times I think it’s good when NO ONE is speaking up (like during a
division meeting at school and a question has been posed and everyone is like a
deer in the headlights but me!). I do
try to be aware when I’ve been speaking a lot so that I can stop for awhile and
give people a break, but there are times I just have so many ideas I want to
share.
3)
I had an overactive imagination from the time I was a
kid, however that used to keep me daydreaming for years past “childhood”. When I was a young teen and went away on
holidays to South Carolina with my family, I used to always daydream I would be
“discovered” on the beach by Joss Whedon and be given a role on Buffy (my other
all-time favourite TV show). (So many questions arise here – why would Joss
Whedon approach a kid on a beach? In South Carolina?)(Now that I think about
it, this seems like a super embarrassing confession, but I was young…ish)(Ah
well, embarrassing is what Truth or Dare is about, amirite?)(Enough with the
brackets -- gotcha). I used to always
imagine being an actress on my favourite shows, and what I would say if I was
on TV talk shows like David Letterman.
I’ve personally never done any sort of acting, and even
stopped taking drama in high school after grade nine, but there was this part
of me for a long time that used to love to imagine what it would be like to be a
Hollywood star.
