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So, um, yeah. This is Mir's heart, here, and seeing as how I don't have a Facebook page, I figured I'd just do that "25 Things" meme here on BlogHer. I know, I'm totally late to the party, but I've been kind of busy. (Shut up. I have so.)
1) My first crush was on an older man -- he was in third grade when I was in second. He fell off the monkey bars and broke his arm, and when he asked Mir to sign his cast I nearly burst.
2) Nothing endears you to me faster than humor.
3) Nothing shuts me down faster than rudeness.
4) I've always been a very soft, quivery pink. Sure, sometimes I hide it pretty well, but yeah. I beat like a girl, what can I say?
5) Exercise is supposed to make me happy, but beating really fast from exertion feels a lot like beating really fast from anxiety. The brain isn't so much down with that.
6) I have a love/hate relationship with tear ducts. Sometimes I'm glad they act as release valves; sometimes I think they're goddamn traitors.
7) Those small people who used to live right under me? Oof. They started out kicking me and even though they're a little further away, they never stop. I mean, I couldn't live without them, but somehow I feel everything they feel.
8) Feeling everything other people feel is totally awesome when things are good.
9) Feeling everything other people feel is totally horrible when things are bad. Actually, it's even worse than just feeling badly for myself.
10) The first time I got broken it seemed like there wouldn't be enough glue in the world to fix me.
11) The second time I got broken I knew that Ben & Jerry's was a good start.
12) The third time I got broken I'd had enough; I swore off that whole romance thing. For good.
13) I made a pact with Mir's brain, then, and it was put in charge of the next few "romances."
14) Let's not talk about that.
15) No, seriously. I can admit when I'm wrong, and I was wrong. But that doesn't mean you get to rub it in.
16) So, uh, that whole "feeling everything they feel" thing? It means I've lost track of the number of times I've broken.
17) A steady diet of chocolate seems to help, a little. Just sayin'.
18) I never believed in that whole soulmate thing, especially because I've been wrong, like, a lot of times. Soulmate, shmoulmate.
19) I still think there's lots of kinds of love and food for one's soul that can (and should) come from lots of different sources. But if I had to believe in soulmates, I'd say Mir finally got it right.
20) Most of the time #19 makes me happy and grateful.
21) Occasionally #19 terrifies me. When you don't have, you can't lose. When you have... well, you know.
22) Risking losing turns out to be far superior to never wanting, actually. (It took me a long time to figure that out. I'm not really a quick learner.)
23) I don't forget the people who have been gentle with me. Ever.
24) I don't forget the people who weren't, either.
25) But I'm learning to forgive, because the taste buds report that the chocolate doesn't taste very good when I don't.
(What would your heart say if it was tagged for the "25 Things" meme?)
BlogHer Contributing Editor Mir also blogs about issues parental and otherwise at Woulda Coulda Shoulda, and about the joys of mindful retail therapy at Want Not.
