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Dream A Little Dream ...

10/23/02 - This is going to sound sooooo egotistical ...

C A T H Y

C  = (creative), caring, colorful, cooperative,
(compassionate), (congenial)
A = (affirming), admirable, (artistic), (agreeable),
amicable, (alluring), altruistic
T = thoughtful, (trainable), tactful
H = (happy), haunting, (homey), heroic, (huggable), holistic
Y = ((yin (positive, bright)), yellow, yearning, (yielding), youthful

-I am Creative by nature and usually look for creative, though not always
practical, solutions to problems.
-I am more Compassionate than most people know, to the point where my heart
hurts from the injustices and pettiness that I witness.
-I am Congenial because no matter what being that returns, I will never have to
beat myself up for being nice.
-I am Affirming because it brings out the best in myself and others.
-I am Artistically inclined, in other words, I'm attracted to the artistic.
-I am Agreeable, but not to a fault. When I agree, you will definitely know it. And,
you may very well be surprised by the things I agree with.
-I am Alluring, however, I'm not quite sure why. I just know that I do attract
people, not always kind ones either.
-I am Trainable, so, don't give up on me. I'm a slow learner, but I want to
understand, I really do.
-I am Happy, though sometimes it hides deep inside of me.
-I am Homey, the plain jane, average, overlooked.
-I am Huggable. Hugging gives/brings encouragement.
-I am Yin, which is positive, bright. I fight with yang a lot though. I want
everything to be mellow and sunny though I know that's not possible.
-I am Yielding because I feel I haven't a chance at getting what I truly want. I've
never been a fighter.

Let me explain. This is an exercise. I signed up for a writer’s workshop
and they send me daily assignments. This was the first one. The title of this
assignment is: Empowerment. Gees, sounds like an Oprah topic. See if I got it
right. I was supposed to take the letters of my name and make a list of adjectives
that begin with the letters. Then I was supposed to highlight the adjectives that
describe who I am. Then I was supposed to make an “I am” statement for each of the highlighted words. You can go on and write paragraphs about how you will change negative statements into positive ones, but the whole thing was only supposed to
take 20 minutes and I’d already worked on the above for an hour. Maybe that means I haven’t the energy to become empowered?

In any case, I found writing about myself like this very strange. But, as I went
along, I got into it. It became more comfortable and started flowing. I enjoyed the writing.
Maybe I’ll come back to this one later and work on those negative statements. I
don’t know how much I can do about the “homey” one. Maybe I could get Oprah
to give me a makeover!