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50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind : Part 3

I know this is a day late, however yesterday was spent with the last day of family time on vacation along with traveling to the airport and getting myself home safe and sound. Needless to say the vacation was awesome but being back at home is also very nice! To make up for yesterday's post, here are my answers for questions 11-15 from "50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind"...

11. You're having lunch with three people that you respect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do? At this point, I feel as though I would lose that respect and admiration that I have for this group of friends. It does not matter whether someone is your friend or not, if someone is unjustly criticizing another person then they obviously do not deserve your respect. I would not be rude or mean to them about what they are saying but I would make it known that I do not appreciate how they are talking about someone that I am close with and at then, if they do not stop, I would excuse myself and distance myself from that group of people from then on. Honestly, I would distance myself either way. [I do have two groups of friends that do not get along, yet they are both very respectful of my position and make it a point to never say anything negative about the others to me anymore, at first it was a struggle but I feel as though the older we have became the easier this situation has become which makes me extremely happy and makes me respect these people much more because they are able to understand to an extent and respect my choices and my decisions to be friends with who I want to be]

12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be? I have thought long and hard about this one, and I would have to say I would just tell them to "let it be"... I have spent a lot of time worrying about the past, things I have done and how these choices have effected the people around me. I have often caught myself wishing and hoping to be able to take things back but I can not. We all grow up with this vision of what our life is supposed to be like, and when those visions do not come true there are a lot of people, including myself, that will sit there and wonder why, or why not. It is something that I have had to work through and am still working through. I would hope that a young child growing up with the idea of "let it be" and just live your life would end up being happy no matter where life took them... and possibly go much further because they have no expectations.

13. Would you break the law to save a loved one? Absolutely.

14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity? I would have to think yes, but I am a pretty creative person in a lot of ways so I would more likely say that other people have thought that I was doing something crazy and then later saw the creativity themselves.

15. What's something you know you do differently than most people? How much time do you have? I know that I do a lot of things differently than most people, for one, whenever I eat a hamburger I immediately turn it upside down so that when I pick it up it is right side up, weird I know but I can't help it. Another thing that I do differently than most, which drives my husband insane, is that I have to be doing multiple projects at once, I can't just have one thing going on at a time, I need to be able to switch things up the second I get bored. I would say I get just as much done as someone who focuses on one thing at a time but my attention span and the interest I have in something has a tendency to fade a lot faster than other people's.

Well that does it for this post of answers... Go and check out Amber over at Brunch with Amber who inspired me to take on this challenge... and if you are so inspired to do this, let me know in the comments below, I would love to hear from you!

<3 Melissa

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50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind : part 2

Happy Tuesday everyone! If you may recall last week I started this fun little project, all thanks goes to Amber over at Brunch with Amber. Her "50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind" post intrigued me until I decided to go ahead and start answering them myself... You can find my first post here.

Here are my answers for questions 6-10...

6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you right? To be honest, this is kind of an easy one... It would be two things that would make me rich, first I would write ALL of the time, it's my absolute favorite thing to do but I just always seem to put it on the back burner and attend to other things before my writing. The second would be, working with stray animals, I am such a sucker for just about any animal out there... I want to help them all and it makes me so sad that there are people out there who just discard their pets, I don't understand how anyone could do that to an animal. So that would be it, writing and animals.

7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing? I would say a little bit of both. I went to school for many years, graduated college and so on, yet I am not even using my degree at my current job and am confident I don't even need it to be where I am at, and sometimes it frustrates me to think about the amount of talent I have and how much time I spent on my degree to just have it sit on the side lines. On the flip side, I work with my family and my grandfather is my boss so in that regard it's awesome to be able to spend that much time with him, and that is the part I do believe in.

8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently? I would be doing anything and everything I could... I would have gotten married much younger, started having kids by now and would just be living life the best I could. I think that we all take for granted that life could be over at 40 and just bank on being around for a long time when that isn't exactly the case all the time. I personally am one of those people, I haven't exactly been tackling my bucket list or even giving much thought to it... Maybe that needs to change...

9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken? I am happy and proud to be able to say that I feel like I have taken and always have had control of my life entirely. Sure, I listen to and take into consideration opinions of my family and close friends all of the time, but in the end I do feel like it has always been ME that has made all the choices for my life... I really like that feeling.

10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things? This is a hard one, I would have to say a little bit of both honestly. Whenever I do anything that could possibly have a negative effect on another person (or a positive effect too) I do consider if it is the right thing or not and if it is, then I do attempt to do it as "right" as I possibly can... and if I think that it isn't the right thing, I would like to think that I have always stepped back and not done whatever it is I was about to do. Doing things right and doing the right things can be used in conjunction if used correctly, doing the wrong things the right way doesn't mean anything but doing the right things the right way, that's what we should all be wanting to do!

If this post or my previous one has made you want to take this challenge too, post the link to your blog in the comments below, I would love to hear what you have to say!

<3 Melissa

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