I don’t know if I would say that it is my happiest moment of every day – but it wouldn’t be a stretch. And it is definitely my most consistently happy moment.
I LOVE the moment before you go to sleep – once you are in bed – and have finished reading, or watching tv. or talking on the phone, after you have turned the light off and you snuggle down into the covers and think about the fact that you are finally in bed for the night. It doesn’t matter if I have been laying in bed all day playing sick – that moment of turning off the light and burrowing in affords me a great deal of happiness.
Of course – the best is when you have been ridiculously busy and are bone tired and have finally made it home. And second to that is when you have been out at night and wanting to go home and someone finally agrees to take a cab home with you or volunteers to drive you home and like magic you are safe and sound in bed and not out worried about how you are going to get home and whether or not it might take you two hours. Because I don’t like to drive home after I have been out at the bar. It is very bad judgment.
I made some vegetable soup tonight. It tasted pretty good – maybe a little bland – but I am hoping that it will be even better tomorrow. I totally burned my mouth on it – it took so long to cook and I was so hungry I kind of lost patience and now I am paying for it.
In other news – I am happy to report that the whole town of Athens didn’t wash away under a flash flood this afternoon. I have never seen such rain before in my life – it was very annoying. I bet the trails are all washed to hell and back. Gah.
So – I am caught up on this new season of 24 which makes me very happy for a couple of reasons. First – it is a good show and fun to watch. Second – because everyone I know – okay – every boy I know and a lot of girls- is obsessed with it – and I hate to be missing out of something so exciting – I’m a sheep.
Everyone say a little prayer that I don’t wake up in the morning sick. Something is going around and I’m a hypochondriac.
Oh – so I watched the Pride and Prejudice miniseries from 1995 or something today and yesterday. Jennifer and I have been discussing the characters in this oh so awesome story at great lengths lately. She says that I am like Jane because I always want to think the best of people and I’m always optimistic to a fault about people’s intentions. And I just had an epiphany about what this means if it is true, or what it might mean.
So here is my question – and I would love everyone’s opinion on the situation. If I am the kind of person who genuinely likes almost everyone – do you not believe me when I tell you someone is awesome and that you will love them? Like – if you are my friend and I tell you about one of my other friends who lives somewhere else or who you don’t know – and I tell you this other friend is great and you should get excited about meeting them – do you believe me? Or do you think in the back of your mind – what ev – Charlsie likes everyone – we will see if they are really that great? Does my recommendation hold any weight? Or is it tainted by my lack of discretion with my affections?
I’m not sure about that – but I have observed that when I don’t like someone – people tend to take note of it because I like everyone and I must have a good reason for disliking this particular person if I make such enormous allowances for everyone else.
But I would like to use my powers for good as well as evil. What do you think?
the thin line between optimism and delusion... 
Since you asked.. I hope this won’t come out the wrong way. I do not doubt that you are a totally sincere person. I think that a positive attitude — your positive attitude — is very important and a wonderful attribute.
I think where it gets you in trouble in the situation you’re describing is when you don’t stop to be truly thoughtful about your friends as individual personalities beyond the mere fact that YOU like them. Because they’re *not* all like you, and they’re *not* all going to like each other. When you assume that they will (and tell them so), it may be a kind of insult to some, because they will think when they meet this other person who is not really like them that you might not have taken the time to REALLY know them and therefore your liking of them might seem less genuine.
I don’t think that really made any sense. And it certainly should not be seen as a suggestion that you should change in any way. But do realize that you are a unique individual in this widespread acceptance thing, and try to take that into account so that you maintain some street cred. 🙂
Charlsie, I trust your endorsement of people implicitly. Your positive attitude and how you get along with everyone somehow bolsters your recommendations, though I’m not sure why. Maybe it just makes me approach the person in question with a positive impression to begin with, rather than being skeptical like I usually am.
Charlsie – I think having something positive to say about someone to another person who has yet to meet the someone is SO important. I know someone (who you know too) that always seems to say something negative before I meet her friends or acquaintances that I don’t yet know. This really bothers me and I try to make such a concentrated effort to overcome the negative comment before I meet the person. Stay the same and don’t overthink this situation – you think more than me!
Hugs and kisses –
Haley