What You Don’t Know…
Have you seen this thing going around Facebook lately where someone gives you a number and you post things most people probably don’t know about you? It makes me think about elementary school, when you had a secret you didn’t want anyone to know, and then one kid found out and broadcasted it throughout the entire school, so you were humiliated in front of everyone. From then on you worked harder to keep whatever other secrets you had actually secret. You would have been mortified if anyone found out those other skeletons in your closet. And now here we are telling all of our 685 Facebook friends those same tidbits of information under the guise of being “cool enough” about those things for them to not matter anymore. But there is such a thing as oversharing, and people tend to do that when given their number in this FB game. My number was 8…
1. I overthink most things.
When faced with two possibilities I spend way too long focusing on one, then the other, and back again. If someone asks me to decide on a restaurant for us to eat lunch, and they don’t hurry me along, I will still be deciding at 7 o’clock in the evening if given the chance. Yet, I cultivate the appearance of nonchalance for the world to see, going with a quick choice and then second-guessing myself forever. Amazingly enough, though, that overthinking doesn’t bleed over into making choices for my fantasy football team. Hmmm.
2. I wet the bed until I was 13.
This is classic oversharing, because absolutely no one needed to know when I stopped wetting the bed, except that I’m proud of it actually stopping at some point. I honestly thought it would go on forever. So, when I’m lamenting the fact that my youngest child is not yet potty-trained, I remember being 13 and wetting the bed, and I’m good with it. Continue reading “What You Don’t Know…”
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