I have come the realization that I am a peculiar human being. I am more than a little strange. I am slightly random and only accidentally funny. I speak too soon and have to eat my words almost daily (It's that whole talk-before-you-think syndrome...usually just something stupid, not bad.). I am a big nerd. I love books. I love history. I am fascinated with dead people (the communion of saints). I love a good biography or documentary. It is funny how being in a relationship will expose you for who you really are. And I am...weird.
I can't decide if it is that I am more myself with Jason than I have ever been or I am more at ease with myself because of him. I think it is a little of both. And it has been this way from the beginning with him. I am just me with him. Peculiar. Weird. Strange. Random. Klutzy. Me.
This is both liberating and scary.
Liberating because I feel like I am learning a lot about myself. I am discovering me in all my weirdness and I kinda like me. I'm sort of fun in my randomness and weirdness. I'm learning to embrace my strange self and own my many quirks. I am figuring out what I like and dislike and learning to be ok with what doesn't match up to the majority. It is thrilling.
It is scary because self-reflection always is. Seeing myself clearly for the first time in a long time is sobering. While the people-pleaser in me has diminished as-of-late, it still lurks in the dark corners and rears its ugly head now-and-then. I am determined to live free of that in this life and this road of self-discovery that I've accidentally started on is helping that matter. And seeing myself through Jason's eyes has helped. He digs my quirks and embraces my weaknesses and encourages me to do the same.
I have learned that I am not perfect (shocking, I know). I am decidedly imperfect, quirky, and weird. I am learning to embrace me and I am more alive because of it. And the boy who is teaching me all of these things about myself (without knowing it, really) helps me in that department, too. More on that in the next post. :)
6 comments:
You are weird and you are quirky but I love you anyway. But probably in a different way than your boy loves you.
Julie, that comment was from me (Shannon) not my husband Jeff. Although he thinks you are cool too.
That was awkward. I need to get my own google blogger.
You crack me up, Shannon. I think it is because you are just as quirky/awkward/weird as I am. This is why we are friends!
Hi Julie:
Wonderful to hear from you on my blog. I hope you and Jason are doing extra well. Please remember to pray for our beloved Asbury as we come down to crunch time in choosing a new pres. in the next few weeks. March 10th is a big day.
Miss seein' you. You tell your students I'm just as strange as you claim to be in your most recent post :)
Blessings
Ben
P.S. As Neil Young once said:
"You're strange,
but don't change". :)
BW3
hahaha an oaf...that is a great word. But do not worry about calling me katie, it is not a big deal. And I really like that you are weird. Its makes things much more enjoyable. :)
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