SELF-REFLECTION AND PERSONAL GROWTH WRITING CHALLENGE

The Thing I Like Most About Myself Today — Day 4

I was really hilarious in the restaurant today and I’m overcoming adversity better than I expected

Dr. Tracy Davis, I’m 4 days into this writing challenge and I’m thoroughly enjoying these writing prompts. It’s making me think about the journey, the progress I’ve made this year, and the road ahead. It’s also allowing me to look inward and see what I have to be grateful for and what room there is to still grow.

There was a time recently when I wasn’t really liking myself. I had hit a relative low to all of the other good events that I’d experienced lately. I experienced an extreme low that I still don’t really want to talk about and am trying to move forward, upward, and onward from. The story isn’t about my lows today though.

I’ve also had some major ups as of the last week. In my new role as one of the two newest editors at New Writers Welcome, I’ve already hit the ground running and have brought my energy, experience, and knowledge on the editing side to help many new writers within the community. I really like that I’m really liking my new team of editors and gelling with all of them well.

Today, we were at the restaurant to eat a quick lunch and we saw our new friend who is a server at the establishment. She mentioned to me that she’s learning Spanish from the older dishwasher that works there and I kept feeding her hilariously inappropriate phrases to send back to him there. She knew most of what I was trying to coax her into saying and just laughed along with me without relaying the inappropriate messages back to this man who must be closing in on 70 years old.

My sense of humor today has been as sharp as it’s been in weeks. I don’t really test it on my partner because he likes to be serious more often than not. I’m a little bit of the joker in the partnership and sometimes my manic, enthusiastic energy can be interpreted as nuttiness. I’m sure that’s not half wrong. My partner always likes to call me his crazy Asian but in an endearing way. I love that I can be my goofy and wacky self around my partner without him being judgmental.

I also love that I haven’t been as irritable as I’d been in the past couple of days with Mike today. We haven’t had any significant tense conversations today. That must mean that whatever was bothering me in the past few days is resolving itself. Mike asked me yesterday why I’ve been crabbier than usual, which can sometimes be pretty crabby, and I think that I can trace it back to the major event from earlier in the week that I just won’t talk about.

Maybe I should talk about what’s bothering me about everything around that. I eventually will let my feelings known about what happened and even give a brief description of what happened but I don’t want to dwell on it especially when today was much better than the last few. I was actually able to laugh, smile, crack jokes, be mildly social, and be my sometimes inappropriate self.

I’m proud the most today that I was able to do all of this but also that I’m seeming to overcome adversity better than I thought that I would after experiencing the events of about a week ago. I know I’m still talking very vaguely about it, but I’ll eventually get to it. For now, I’m just going to be proud of how I’m handling things today and who I am right now.

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