Recalling Pineapples

Question 17/424:  Remember a time you felt nervous before doing something. How did it go? I feel nervous/anxious (are those the same?) often before doing new things.  As an adult, most things I’ve been nervous about but did anyway have worked out fine.  Honestly, I think the only time me pushing through nerves didn’t work out in my favor was during middle and high school when I would admit to having a crush on someone and they would quickly turn me down. As far as recent examples go, I just last night attending my first comedy club show (I’d been to theaters hosting a comic before but never to a venue dubbed a Comedy Club) and it was in downtown Detroit.  I was nervous about parking, and whether I’d have to walk alone for a long distance, but thankfully I was able to find parking literally right next door and the show was a great time. Also, I recently auditioned for my first play since 2019 (I believe that was the year I auditioned) and I was very nervous....

Question 15/424:  What important truth do few people agree with you on? The first thing that comes to my mind is a project my friend Sarah started back in 2014 where she made pies and gave out pieces for free in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  It started out as a local project and then evolved into a cross-country road trip funded by the generosity of others and fueled by pie.  During the trip across the USA she started a t-shirt campaign where the logo reflected symbols for four things:  Food/Water, Shelter, Education, and Medicine.  The message behind the t-shirt, as well as her non-profit, was food, water, shelter, education and medicine are fundamental rights and should be offered to anyone regardless of social status or affluence.  I think there could be an argument that this is socialism, and I guess I can’t really argue that it isn’t.  I do think it’s important to remind people, however, that a lot of these human rights are in fact offered to a large po...