Week-end Prep!
Davit
Sorry I didn't reply sooner, I haven't checked the website for a few days. I like your statement "we are a product from our past". Without some of the experiences I've had, both good and bad, I wouldn't be who I am now. I prefer the person I am now to the persons I've been in the past. I said persons because I have tried to be a lot of things in the past, I guess it's all part of being a teenager and growing up. I'm a lot nicer than i used to be.
Definitely with the sink or swim exposure (funnily enough, I've also heard it referred to as 'flooding'), I would swim straight to the edge of the water, get out and keep running. If someone were to force me to go to lunch in the middle of a crowded restaurant today, I wouldn't last long at all. But I know it's something I will be able to do in the future, as I have before.
It was funny when I broke my arm, the bone I broke is called the humerus! I was 16 at the time and playing the park with my much younger cousins, when I fell 6ft from the top of a slide onto my hand with my arm straight out. At the hospital, they gave me 2 panadeine forte and a nurofen and because I'd never had those pain killers before, I was high as a kite. The high had well and truly worn off before I went to school the next day though haha.
Using a distraction isn't necessarily cheating, it's more like making sure you're well prepared for a test. There are some safety behaviours I use which I can't live without at the moment but I have noticed I rely on them a bit less now. I'm really enjoying going on my outings now, and making a reasonable sized dent in my savings ;)
Same here, I always take a water bottle and a source of sugar with me. I'm not actually diabetic, but if I go for more than 4 hours without eating, my blood sugar drops and I get the shakes and it can get to the stage where I faint. I hate it when my stomach is in knots too.
Aw ouch! I'm glad you at least made it home. It's awful knowing you've done some serious damage. My body instantly went into shock with my arm, I remember walking back to the bench where my family was sitting and I couldn't see anything at all, it was all a blur. As soon as I threw up though, the shock kind of disappeared and the worries started. I'm kind of glad I went into shock though, because I didn't really feel any pain. It was almost like a protection mechanism.
That's the best way to do things I reckon, there's no real point doing a job you don't even enjoy. As Castle says on my favourite TV show, "the trick is to find work that feels like play."
Kaitie.
