An ex and his opinion

There is a whole lot going on in my life at the moment. And I’ve been writing the letters off my keyboard in the last couple of days. None of that writing will end up here, or anywhere else for that matter. Mainly because so much of what I have had on my mind is intertwined with someone else’s life, and this someone would rather not have their life aired on my blog right now. Needless to say the fact that I’ve been itching to post things left, right and center is taking second chair to this person’s request. I understand and respect their wishes.

So what do I write about… I could talk about the jetlag, but I’m fairly certain that’s a topic that has been covered before. I could talk about the student riots, but I’m just going to assume that most people who come across this also read newspapers or watch the news (and I mean actual news, not Fox news). There are always books and movies, but I’m not in the mood to dissect somebody else’s work. I suppose I could take a cue from so many other blogs and write about sex, but why be trite when you don’t have to be. However since I’m lacking originality today, I’ll just sponge off someobody else’s idea.

A few weeks ago, there was a challenge on a blog. The challenge was to get an honest review of yourself from an ex and post it without spinning it. Well, I got the review and after translation, here it is:

You are too self-reliant. You value your independence too much, and have difficulty asking for help. You are too sensitive and cry too easily, get involved too much too quickly. Work takes up too much of your time, and you need to learn to let go of it sometimes. Sometimes you hold people and things to unreasonably high standards, though I’ll admit you’re usually easygoing.

Ok, I admit I edited that a little for excessive bitterness, but that’s pretty muh the gist of it. I think I’m going to need a second opinion on this. While I agree that I can be a little too sensitive, I don’t think I’m too self-reliant if I’m with someone I can actually rely on. I think I hold myself to very high standards as I have been known to suffer from ‘good girl syndrome’, but I’m working on it. Work is important to me, but I’m working on letting go on occasion too. I have other faults that he didn’t mention at all, and there was one other thing he mentioned, but I think that was particular to that relationship and not a general thing, so I won’t bring that up here. If I do get another review I’ll post that too.