10 day meme
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valarltdDay One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn-offs.
Day Eight: Three turn-ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession
1) I was a very bad mother for the first few years and Bun got the brunt of my steep learning curve
2) I married too young and had too many children much too young. If I did it over, I'd wait on the kids until we were out of school and out of some debt.
3) I had a wicked stepfather in my childhood and teens. There are days I regret never having had the nerve to kill him.
4) I wish I had taken more shop and home-ec and less literature.
5) I regret running up the Visa bill I did. It took us years to get out from under, but we finally cleared it.
6) Sometimes I wish I had the nerve to step out of the closet and broom closet both, in all aspects of my life. This is in direct contradiction to "harm none." Knowing would harm my mother greatly and benefit me not at all.
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn-offs.
Day Eight: Three turn-ons.
Day Nine: Two images that describe your life right now, and why.
Day Ten: One confession
1) I was a very bad mother for the first few years and Bun got the brunt of my steep learning curve
2) I married too young and had too many children much too young. If I did it over, I'd wait on the kids until we were out of school and out of some debt.
3) I had a wicked stepfather in my childhood and teens. There are days I regret never having had the nerve to kill him.
4) I wish I had taken more shop and home-ec and less literature.
5) I regret running up the Visa bill I did. It took us years to get out from under, but we finally cleared it.
6) Sometimes I wish I had the nerve to step out of the closet and broom closet both, in all aspects of my life. This is in direct contradiction to "harm none." Knowing would harm my mother greatly and benefit me not at all.
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Date: 2011-01-04 07:10 am (UTC)It'd be nice to be 100% out in every aspect of my life, but as you said, it would cause more harm to some people and not benefit me in the slightest to do so.
It's something that I think about a lot though... This is going to sound like a weird tangent, but stay with me:
My husband listens to Coast-To-Coast AM while falling asleep most nights, and for the week surrounding New Years, they take an hour or so every night to have people call in and give their predictions for the next year. This year, some person called in a prediction that 2/3 of the population of the USA would come out as homosexual in 2011.
It made me think about how the percentage of GLBTetc folks, while probably not 2/3 of the population, it's probably a whole lot larger than is currently considered, due to how many of us have that same issue - we're not entirely out, and therefore not counted... (Though there is also the problem of there not being an established "official" way to count such things - but that's a whole other issue.)
So - while being out may harm others close to us, and not benefit us... do we harm the greater community by not being out?