Two Questions

I love to talk to people.  Perhaps it's the television producer in me but when I meet someone new, I tend to want to find out as much about them as possible.  When I was younger I wanted to be like Barbara Walters - she had conversations for a living.  How cool!  (although, last night's list of most interesting people of the year stopped after Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.  The Khardashians?  Simon Cowell?  Barbara, you might be going soft.)

Two of my favorite questions to ask people are:
What is your motto?  and
What one person could come to your door and ask you to run away with them and you would?

I always say that my motto is "Life is too short to drink cheap booze".  Most people laugh when I say that.  And it is kind of silly.  But if you look beyond the silliness, what I am trying to say is that Life is too short to (and you can fill in the blank).  I believe every day is a gift and so many of us waste them in careers they hate, in marriages that are unhappy, in self loathing because they are (again fill in the blank), in giving away their power to someone else.  The older I get, and the more it is proved to me in my own life, the more I realize that if you step out in faith - whether it be in God, the Universe, Yourself - your path to change will reveal itself.  Stepping out in faith feels hard but life really is too short.  And as things in my world shift and change, stepping out in faith is staring at me very intently.  I sense a leap in my not-to-distant future. 

As to who you would run away with - people are often shocked when I ask them that question. 

"Run away?"
"Can I take my kids?" 
"Can I take my husband/wife/partner?" 

Ummm DUH - NO!  That is the whole purpose of running away.  The question is about stepping outside of your reality for a minute.  It's about fantasizing.  It's interesting to think about why you would choose that person.  It's about fun.  But a lot of people I talk to can't answer the question. 

"I could NEVER leave my kids!" 
"My life is perfect why would I want to run away?" 

I ADORE my husband and kids but if a certain someone knocked at my door and said -"Run away with me."  I would go. 

The fun part is that you know it will never happen.  Even more fun is to think about the reasons why you chose that person - are they deep and thoughtful?  Shallow?  Crazy?  Or a combination?

And so you ask, who is my "chuck it all" person?  I have always been able to answer the question without hesitation. If the doorbell rang and I opened the door and Bono was standing there - I would be gone. 

What is your motto?
Who is your "chuck it all" person?


Peace.
Tee