Recently I have been prompted via a social network site to share with others 7 things that people do not know about me.
I don’t generally do chain requests, I prefer to take my own stance in life and really don’t like being told what I should do!
However, the request did pose a challenge to me, I like challenges and since I haven’t really got round to creating my own personal challenges for this year yet, I thought I would attempt this one.
This challenge that presented itself was one that I couldn’t immediately answer even if I wanted to and it got me thinking. I do not have an issue with sharing things; in fact many who know me would probably say I can overshare!
However, there is a question to be asked. What 7 things do not come up in everyday conversation?
1. I was born with Esophageal Atresia and Tracheoesophageal Fistula. Bit of a mouthful I know. As well as this, I was born with a deaf ear, under developed Kidneys and 4 thumbs. But these do not define me as a person. What they did do however was teach me a few lessons. It taught me to survive, no matter how tough the circumstances, it taught me compassion for others and it taught me that there was more to people than what was on the outside.
2. I died several times and chose life every time. At first I wasn’t sure. I bloody hated living in the body I was given. I did the whole dying experience, I spoke with my guides, my Angels and who knows, probably my ancestors too. I was given a choice to stay on this Earth plane and I saw my whole life flash before me. Of course I do not remember much now, but I do know that I am looked after and that I will always be ok. In fact, we are all ok if we all had a little more faith in our own abilities.
3. I communicate with dead people. Ok so I’m not an exorcist. It is not even a regular occurrence. It does not scare me. It is like sometimes they reach out to me, we have conversations, I can feel what they feel, I work with my Mum and together we send them to the light.
4. I fancy woman as well as men. Always have done. For me it goes beyond the physical, I am attracted to people’s energy. Love comes in all shapes and sizes. I believe love is a feeling that cannot ever me measured or judged. We all experience such an emotion in very different ways; ones’ way of loving can never be the same as another. Love knows no boundaries.
5. When I was 24 I had an abortion and yet the love and protection I felt for the little being growing inside me was insurmountable. But I knew straight from the start that she was never meant to be born in this world. I have no regrets. I always knew she was a girl. I named her Chloe later on in life. She visits me sometimes. She is a part of me, almost a mirror reflection.
6. I am not looking forward to turning 40 next year. I dread it. I realise this is due to unrequited expectations. As a teenager I thought (even though I didn’t want it) that I would be married having a Mortgage and having babies by the time I was 40. I am doing neither and nor do I want to. It still doesn’t stop me from dreading my 40th year. To think I spent so many of my former years worrying about what others thought of me. Now of course I don’t care. Which is ironic really because I am capable of judging myself more harshly than anyone else could ever do!
7. I have an (enjoyable) habit to shock people. To unsettle them from their own realities. It doesn’t matter who they are or where I am. If I can get someone thinking outside the box, even if I am regarded slightly crazy then I feel I have done something worthwhile. ;-)
