Recalling Pineapples

Question 9/424:  What do you think about intuition, or “following your gut”? I think having and following your intuition or your “gut” is a valuable skillset.  It takes a certain amount of confidence and self-esteem to trust yourself enough to follow your own intuition or gut feeling.  I also think it’s valuable to recognize when and in which situations you actually have enough experience to have an intuition worth following.  I think sometimes people’s egos can be a bit inflated and maybe they follow their gut and it leads them in the wrong direction because they actually don’t have any experience in the situation they were letting intuition lead them through.  I also feel like sometimes gut feelings are not, and should not be treated as, the end all be all, but are instead warning signs from your subconscious to just pay attention and take note on anything that seems off or uncomfortable. I think at a certain point in everyone’s life – whether it be a cert...

Question 7/424:  When you make a mistake that others find funny, are you able to laugh at yourself? My knee jerk reaction or immediate response to this question is: No, I am not able to laugh at myself.  Context is important but generally speaking I think I do not handle embarrassment well.  If I’m doing something completely new to me, and the people around me know that it’s new to me and are being understanding to that and I mess up then I might be able to laugh that off.  Or, if we’re doing something for fun and the mistake is something inconsequential or genuinely funny, well then I think in that situation, too I could laugh it off.  However, I take great pride in what I do whether it be work or hobby I want to do things well, and to prove that I can do them well.  Once, in fact the once and only time, I went paintballing, and the people who invited my friend and I there knew we were newbies and told us they would take care of us as far as gear and k...

  Question 5/424:  What is your most important goal right now? This question is going to produce a somewhat repetitive answer seeing as I already wrote a long-winded blog post about having been in debt since I was 16 and working on paying off the last bits of credit card debt, but the answer is – paying off credit card debt.  Well, technically my most important goal right now is buying a house.  But, in order to buy a house I currently have to focus on paying off credit card debt, paying off my car, and building a savings account so I can purchase a home hopefully before I turn 35 (2027).  While I know that technically I probably don’t have to do all of those things, I would not feel comfortable or secure in my home buying if I still had the rest of this bad credit hanging over my head while also taking on the added stress of homeownership.  I had really hoped I would already be much closer to this goal when I got my consolidation loan back in 2016 but ...