What are you afraid of?

Everytime my daughter spends quality time with me, we (she will say that it is mostly me) think of random questions for us to answer. Our hope is to better understand each other.

On this particular day, I asked her,"What are you afraid of?" She looked up and then at me. She said,"Death". I asked her why. She said that she would miss her friends. Then she said one other thing,"I would forget what a cheeseburger tastes like". (With these two responses, we may see a dip in the daughter holiday spending budget.) Jokingly, I told her that she would forget that and a lot more things once she dies.

Sometimes you can spend considerable amounts of time with people that you love, and never really know them. You can not know what they like to eat, watch, do, or read. Or what they are most proud of, what would they like to accomplish before they die, who inspired them the most, or what was their most hurtful or disappointing memory.

Buried in the right questions are answers to who we are. Two fears that people may have are: 1. being yourself or 2. asking and answering questions. Whenever you can, take the time to get to know yourself and others. Once death knocks on any of your loved ones' doors, you will find that "your getting to know others" time was well spent.

Unintended Inspiration

People actually read this stuff. What is even funnier, some enjoy it. Recently, I interviewed a bright young man for a position, and he did his due diligence by researching me (FYI-It is a good idea to research your interviewer before an interview). This was the first time that someone had found by blog.

At the beginning, he discussed how he liked my writing style. I'm not sure if he was stretching the truth for interview points. If so, it worked a little:) His favorite was my "Punked" post. We transitioned out of the conversation by him saying that I should write again.

Well look at here....I am. What is even cooler, the writing bug just hit me again and this time I remembered my password to the blog.

Words and actions do impact people for better or worse. Thankfully on this occasion it was for the better.