Everything Changes

I'm Feeling: motivated
Background Noise: White Flag by Dido

I'm always surprised at how much people can change - we like to hide behind our personalities and natural tendencies, but that is actually really confining. Safe, but confining. Change can be painful and scary, and if no one is complaining - why bother... right?

I try to be changing myself all the time (though most of the time, that's not apparent to anyone but me). I'm a very verbal person, so I tend to make lists, and write down goals and things... thinking of characteristics I'd like to possess, or things that I want to be true of me. Sunday night, I was at Beaner's with a friend - she was studying for a math test, and I was keeping her company, and drinking a yummy chai latte (one of my all-time favorites - more on that in a minute). Anyway, I made up a list of words that I'd love to be used when people think of how to describe me. I'm pretty sure that right now, I'm nowhere near where I'd want to be on ANY of these, but that is motivating to me. I want to share them with you:

- generous
- easy to please
- wise
- diligent
- dependable
- compassionate
- childlike heart and faith

As of today, those are some things I really want to be working on.

Now, about the chai... yesterday, I had a couple extra minutes, and decided to verbalize my thoughts:

Chaiku
i love the chai latte
it is foamy and spicy and and sweet
warms me up inside

(please hold your applause until the end)

Chai Limerick
There once was a girl who loved chai
So much that she could not say "bye"
To the sweet foamy drink
What was she to think
It's all gone and she's gonna cry

thank you... I'll be here all week.