1. I really appreciate stupid humor, and have a quirky/weird side to my humor as well. I think I tend to connect with most others' sense humor with my terrible puns haha.
2. I have a very deep side that I've learned not everyone has the capacity to handle. It's not dark by any means because I'm very much a hopeful and optimistic type, but I'm not afraid to talk about and ponder dark things. I once actually had a quiet time in a cemetery just to give myself perspective on how out of control of things I am, how much more in control God is, and that I need to make the most of time, energy, and resources that God has given me. I think during harder times of life I tend to gravitate toward this side of myself more, though, and have to work to find balance between that and my fun side. When I'm normal/happy, that balance tends to come naturally.
3. I am very much a people pleaser. I discovered early on this year that I have a lot of deep-rooted lies in me about my worth that have been there since I was a child, and I think my personality has actually been molded around wanting to relate to, get along with, and fit in with people. The happiest times of my life were in high school and college when I felt like I was valued by a lot of people, and anytime that I take a personality test, I don't fit nicely into one category. I'm a bit of an anomaly as far as personality types go. I might get nailed down as a certain type on the Myers-Briggs spectrum, but some of the traits that are typically true of someone that is that type are not true of me, and I will share traits with people of other types instead.
4. To go along with #3, I am super self-aware. I like to say that I am constantly debriefing myself on life. Anytime I'm in a conflict, the first thing I do afterwards is examine where I went wrong and I'm always examining the beliefs/thoughts/motivations/emotions why I do the things that I do.
5. I screw up. A lot. I particularly have an ongoing and seemingly unending battle with being disciplined in most major areas of my life.
6. I am kind of a numbers nerd. I don't necessarily like math all that much, but I like to believe that numbers never lie. If I could make every major life decision using an Excel spreadsheet, I totally would.
7. The coolest things I have ever done in my lifetime are go whale-watching off the coast of Maine and see the Eiffel Tower light up while on a boat ride through Paris on the Seine.
8. I love learning about people and am fascinated with what makes people tick and how we tend to function according to the way that God created us. I love this thread for that very reason. I have appreciated everyone's lists so far and liked each and every one of them. I think it is also evidence of the truth that everyone has a desire to be known.
9. I tend to be kind of a jack of all trades and a master of none. I think that I am pretty good at a lot of different things, but not amazing at any single one. I play and follow sports, I play piano, guitar, and bass, I enjoy talking theology (and am a Calvinist/complementarian for all you other nerds out there), and I love nature. (A little known fact about me is that I was obsessed with birds as a kid, and while that interest faded a bit as I became a teenager because it wasn't really all that "cool," I could still usually tell you what a bird is as it's flying by just by the way it flies. [P.S. I also love to talk parenthetically
]) I think this might go along with wanting to be able to relate to people, but I also have a bit of a desire to be a lifelong learner. Just know a lot about things all across the spectrum of my interests. This is part of the reason I'm a huge podcast junkie.
10. My career path is a bit foggy to me at the moment. I originally went to school for physical therapy. That changed to sociology/psychology after a year. Then after another two years I transferred schools and ultimately graduated with a degree in intercultural studies. A few months after graduating while struggling to find a job, my dad offered to let me work with him doing accounting. I eagerly accepted and have done that for about 3 1/2 years now. I started taking accounting classes last fall as well to better understand what I was doing and hopefully make a bit more money, and I will finish my associate's degree after this fall. Because accounting wasn't ever really intended to be a forever career for me though, ultimately I think I want to go to seminary for counseling (potentally financial counseling/consulting) at some point. I just don't know when that will be.
