Life Questions Past Part Two

Three Words

“Write down the first three words that come to mind when reading the words below. Don’t think.’

Parents

1. Generous

2. Restrictive

3. Pep squad

I had a very good relationship with my parents until I turned fourteen. I started combatting my parents over little things like what I could wear and where I could go. In hindsight, I was asking alot. These were not the mathletes I was hanging out with. I was with senior boys, drug dealers at that. They smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol pretty blatantly. No wonder my parents (especially my dad who was a cop) were concerned.

School

1. Interesting

2. Stressful

3. Nostalgia

I am one of those few people who actually learned from school. That’s probably because my high school (which was all female and private) and my college employed excellent teachers. In high school I enjoyed all my English and history classes as well as theater arts, humanities, sociology, psychology and I even got some stuff out of religion class. In college I was thrilled to learn something that would pertain to my future career. I loved our public speaking class where I did a Ted talk on OCD.

Friends

1. Supportive

2. Giving

3. Two faced

I am blessed to have had  many great friends over the years. I was terrible at keeping in contact with them but at least I have the memories: the good….and the bad.

Math

1. Evil

2. Impossible

3. Boring

I think my feelings here are quite obvious. 

Playground

1. Monkey bars

2. Rainbow tunnel

3. Dinosaur climbing wall

The rainbow tunnel was our turf in elementary school. We would all squeeze in and gossip about boys and sometimes our boobs if they were growing (mine already were).

Recess

1. Flyers

2. Keepaway

3. The library

Flyers and keepaway were both fun to play at recess. Flyers was allowed, keepaway was not. I liked the games because they were both coed but I was enchanted with the middle school library. It had so many books I could  identify with- books about girls my age going through what I was going  through. Man, when I graduated I think I missed the library the most.