Day 1: Something you love about yourself!

Way to start with the hard one first....

This is like the worst one. I've never been good at this kind of stuff. I think the think I love about myself is my compassion. My need to do what's right regardless of how other people feel about it. Example: Yesterday I took  Little One for a walk around our complex and found a phone lying in the grass. I picked it up and brought it home with us. I happened to have a charger that would fit it and set it up to charge for a few minutes because it was pretty much ready to die. After a few minutes of charging I was able to look through the phone a little and figure out that it belonged to a man and his girlfriends name (which I figured out by looking through the phone) was saved as a contact. I called her from the phone and explained who I was and how I'd come across the phone. They were together and they were both very appreciative that I had gone through the trouble of figuring out who it belonged to. The Hub, on the other hand, told me that I was crazy for trying to find the owner and that I should have just tossed the phone or taken it to the office. Those poor people probably never would have thought to check the office. I know I wouldn't have if it was my phone...

I try my hardest to do everything I'm supposed to do. I was raised by military parents and I wasn't raised to be selfish. Sometimes I AM selfish, but normally when I've made a conscious decision to be. I try to do what's right even when I don't want to... I'm losing my compassion, though. Slowly. It's hard to care so much about everyone else and how they're feeling and how happy they are when no one seems to care how I feel about anything.

You know, most people would have kept the phone. Tried to sell it. Something. But I didn't. If you ask my husband, I'm crazy. No, it's the rest of the world that's crazy. I just did what I hoped someone else would do for me. I've had phones stolen. It's not fun.

Even for my wedding, I just kind of let my mom do what she wanted to do and only fought her on the things that were really important to me. I just don't like arguing and fighting. I think this was a bad topic for me. Maybe this will get easier....?