Honest Scrap.

This award is being passed across blogging circles and ‘Talented Foreigner’ passed it to me. To receive this, I have to write 10 honest things about myself. So here it goes.

1. In all honesty, I think absolute honesty is boring and for people with no imagination. Telling tales takes more skill. I prefer even true stories to be told with an imaginative spin. But I stick to being honest most times because it is more convenient and less stressful than lying.
   
2. I think absolute facts and truths are also boring. 2+2 = 4,  but this fact will not come and save you when the night is dark.  A grace saving fib and some wishful / hopeful thinking and some hot chocolate can save more days and lives than hard facts.
3. I am brutally honest. But this is only because I love to gossip. Talking behind backs but also saying the same things to peoples faces eases my conscience.
4. Pictures of authors disappoint me. I like to imagine what they are like. I imagined Haruki Murakami to be a happy, pudgy, white socks wearing, old man who slept with a sake infused bong by his bed and wrote his books when very stoned. Danielle Steel on the other hand looked exactly as I imagined she would.
5. Years of boarding school and being a public relations professional have made me very jaded about all things proper and correct. I can be all that, but in my personal life I find slouching very comfortable, say what I mean instead of what others would like to hear and I like to play with food.
6. I like India but find it weird to ‘love’ a piece of land or be nationalistic.  I’d never join the army and die for a nation. Wars suck.
7. I love my husband dearly. He is the best thing to happen to me. But I fear it will go to his head if I tell him that too many times.
8. I have only lived 2 years of my adult life with my family and while I like them I don’t really know them. I am closer to my friends.
9. I am immodest and don’t understand people who work for years to achieve something and then brush it off as ‘nothing’. Why spend your life pursuing ‘nothing’. Only those who have not earned it are modest.
   
10. I am addicted to the Internet. I don’t consider it a problem…..yet.
    

I pass it on to anyone who doesn’t have a thing to blog about currently.