What I Am and What I Ask

Proverbs 18:24
There are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother

I am a dreamer. I am constantly talking about the future and I love the way I can completely drift away from reality when I think about what my days hold. My dreams are crazy, but I believe in them and I really want those around me to do the same.

I talk all the time…I know I talk to much but the only way I can get a handle on things is through talking about it.

I am loud and sometimes flat out stupid, but at least I accept that about myself and will announce it to the world. I don’t make sense all of the time and usually I make a lot of mistakes. But oh well…I’ll learn the next time. And I’ve learned from that you can’t please everyone. I am by no means perfect.

I love quotes. Nothing makes me happier than a good quote. Nor does nothing inspire me more.

I am a passionate person. I crave love from people, and not the intimate-type of love. I want people to love who I am, and to find me enjoyable to be around. If I love someone, I usually want to spend a lot of time with them and I want to be their right-hand man.

My heart cries out for the Lord. I am not his perfect servant, and there are a lot of times I am not able to feel Him. But that doesn’t matter. I will always be searching for Him and I will always be trying to love Him though.

I am OCD, or at least by my standards. Everything has to be perfect. I work on things a lot, and if my environment is not clean it drives me crazy. I have to be organized and everything has to be in order.

I love to take pictures. I am not very good and by no means artsy, but I love hearing that click and finding out I got a good photo.

I am constantly trying to improve myself. I see things I like about other people, whether I hear about it or I experience it for myself, and I try to do the same exact things. I want to be caring and put others before me, I want to be crafty, I want to be creative, I want to be successful, I want to impress others, I want to make others happy, I want to love God with all of my heart, and I want to never speak ill of others. This things I will never spot trying to do. And these values are extremely important and I love dearly.

I am extremely silly. I don’t think I make a lot of sense, but I laugh a lot and sometimes I make others around me laugh and I love that when it happens.

I love to write. In fact, I am constantly referring to the book I am writing as my baby and everything I write is a reflection of what I have encountered, whether through the characters or how they react to certain things.  If I’m not talking about writing…well that doesn’t happen very often.

I understand that I am extremely flawed…but I have accepted that about myself.

I ask that you accept me for who I am. I ask that you not judge me for any of the things I do. I ask that you are polite to me, and at least how the decency to confront me with any problems you have with me, instead of words flowing out of your mouth to others. I ask that you make the effort to spend time with me and to start the conversations sometimes too- because I don’t want to do all the work.  I ask that you love me like I will love you, with the upmost respect and with all of my heart.

Who “you” is, those people should already know. Because I know who you are, and I really don’t believe you could ever do the things I’ve asked of you. But that’s okay. Because I’ve learned that I don’t need you and that I can live without you. I use to not think that.

There are better people and better plans that God has out there for me. And I am so blessed to now understand this.