Yeah. Precognitive dreams mostly. Nothing I expect anyone else to believe, but I myself know because I documented them when I dreamed them, then the events occurred and it was such random, little detailed things that I could not possibly have predicted based on knowledge. Maybe everyone dreams the future and just forgets their dreams?
Some synchronicity things too, stepping into exactly the right place at the right time, wishing for something then having it immediately drop into my lap. Those I am minded to chalk up to random chance, but some are so comically obvious, things just appearing where they were not, right when I need them.
My job is ok, but I swear every day I wake up glad I don't have to go to school. At least work pays me, and the people I work with are great.
But even when we were desperately poor I still liked it better than childhood. Even an illusion of choice (as hexesofvexes puts it) is preferable to the tight constraints of childhood. Even when I had nothing but what fit in my purse, no home, no money that felt better, sort of free; now with a house and family I feel like we have luxury, kids, dogs, cats, garden. Lifestyle. All of adulthood, even the sucky parts, feel like my life to live, childhood did not.
Yeah. But more often I have made mistakes, then come back later to say it was a mistake. I issue corrections a lot. It's harder to make that connection when in a heated argument.
Cheating is complicated. Yeah some people just will, they are fooling themselves when they say they won't. Some people find it sexy, they literally want to cheat, they think it's hot. Others will if the situation gets extreme, people in dead bedroom situations who want to keep their family together and make the calculation (or miscalculation) that cheating is less damaging than divorcing. I worked with old people when I was younger, my bosses were old Spanish people who married for business reasons but had lovers, they did not love each other in a romantic way.
I'd say that as divorce becomes easier to get, marriage more based on love rather than alliance and monogamy less required, there is probably less cheating. But it won't ever be zero.
If you are asking is cheating universal? No. It's not.
I grew up with the kids of the original set of Cuban refugees and thought it was because they were the rich people fleeing Castro. So they were already aligned with the right here,they like the idea of being on the upper side of a class divide.
The newer ones may just be anti -abortion, there are a lot of those "single issue voters" everywhere not just here.
I am a parent of adults and really just want them to meet their own standards for themselves. My mom was the same. Sure I'd like grandkids, but not to the point I would ask! Their lives are for them to live.
If you are asking about little kids, it's because they are exhausting. We went out to get tacos and there was the cutest little boy running around yelling "va! va!". How delightful for us but I'm sure his mom was tired of it, it was 8pm. I am sure she would be happy if he would just sit down and eat now.
Not if you already know how to drive, no. My kid who was motivated to use my car learned easily, and I learned it in a day when the rest of the people I was with were too drunk to drive.
But learning to drive in a new country? And manual at the same time? That seems more difficult. Can you practice here first? Does anyone you know drive stick?
Diet coke & cocktails, and potato chips (crisps and fries both) though I am moderate with all.
Sloth, I guess - I'm physically active, but so lazy in some ways, wake up when I wake up, want people to come to my house, I don't want to go to theirs, want to live close to everything so I don't have to travel, don't work as hard as I could at work, don't try to move up.
Sex. Every day at least once.
Reading is my escape, but I don't think it's a vice.
I can read a map (and hate letting the car navigate) but map has to be aligned with the world. Before the cell phone, I used to spread the map out on the ground, with north pointing north.
My mom said "never learn to sew. You will look at clothes and say 'no way I am buying that, I can make it' and then you won't make it, and you will have nothing to wear".
I did sew costumes for my kids for Halloween, stuff that doesn't have to last, but get what she was saying.
I do, however, cook much better than she did and am not sorry, still like going out to eat. And can make cocktails better than most I'd get at a bar but still find joy in going out for a drink. I think she was right about clothes though, they aren't an experience like going out to dinner.
I will take being an adult with responsibility over being a child any day. All I remember is ennui and a trapped feeling. School sucked so bad, and no control over your own life. I want to know what sort of idyllic childhood the people who write this stuff had? I wasn't abused or anything, it just sucks being a kid.
Coffee is reasonably healthy, it's a food not a pill.
Coffee is nice to relax with friends, it's overall a pleasant experience.
On dose only, I agree. But why be efficient about eating and drinking? That doesn't seem like a reasonable goal. I want to be inefficient about that. Stop and relax.
My kids love chili, with or without meat. Especially if it has hominy or corn. And are crazy about "mushroom sauce" for pasta, saute a truly astonishing amount of mushrooms then pour bottled spaghetti sauce over. Like they want more mushrooms than pasta just about.
I cook most of our meals. My kids would eat ma po tofu every day I think. Husband asks for pierogi and sausage and sauerkraut all the time. Youngest would eat homemade macaroni and cheese probably every day. Yellow rice and chicken with black beans is always well received, as are bean and cheese simple burritos.
Yeah. Precognitive dreams mostly. Nothing I expect anyone else to believe, but I myself know because I documented them when I dreamed them, then the events occurred and it was such random, little detailed things that I could not possibly have predicted based on knowledge. Maybe everyone dreams the future and just forgets their dreams?
Some synchronicity things too, stepping into exactly the right place at the right time, wishing for something then having it immediately drop into my lap. Those I am minded to chalk up to random chance, but some are so comically obvious, things just appearing where they were not, right when I need them.