I Am an Introvert

    I wish I was an extrovert. I really do, and this summer I'll be working on that.
One thing I have a problem with is having my own opinions. I wait for others to state theirs, and then base my vehemence of opposition or agreement on the way they say their opinion. Why do I care what they think? I don't know.
    I also hate showing emotions, but last Friday I was in a Choreography Performance for a workshop that I did with my dance studio, and I got so nervous that I started crying ten or twenty minutes before it started. For goodness' sake, I only had to be onstage for 3 minutes! Thanks to my teacher's pep talk, I got it over with, and I will be doing it next time, but I can't get over the fact that I cried in front of twenty-some people. I HATE crying in front of people.
    *sigh*
     It was definitely a learning experience in a couple different ways. I certainly got a lot of hugs, and another reason I want to become an extrovert this summer is so I can show all those people who I know love me how much I love them back. I'm so thankful for all the support I got from all the other dancers, and some of their parents.
     Furthermore, I know that God will never leave me nor forsake me, even if tears are pouring down my face, and whether my face is red or not, whether I'm an introvert or extrovert.

Thoughts after reading "Gone With the Wind."

     Love makes me happy. I don't mean romantic love, but the love of one person accepting another just as he is. When someone loves me for myself, I am happy. For someone who loves me for the simple, strange person I am, I would do almost anything. So many times we "love" others for what we can get from them; maybe talking to a particular person makes us feel important, or makes us laugh, or whatever. No matter what it is, we're in it for what we can get, and yet we think, "I love this person! Look at how nice I was to them today!" Even then we are "loving" others so we can pat ourselves on the back. That is not love. Love is giving of yourself to make someone else happy. It is accepting one another whether we are weird, or ugly, or helpless, or boring. Love is about what you can do for another needy, sinful person.
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." ~1 Corinthians 13:4-7
~The Dryad

Spool Quote Necklace

Necklace Ingredients:

• Wooden spool
• Chain/necklace
• Paper
• Thread

     Write a quote out on a long piece of paper, the width approximately 1/4 inch smaller than the height of your spool.
     Tape one end to the spool and wind it 'round, securing with a piece of thread wrapped 3 or 4 times around the spool before tying.

 

     Put the spool on the chain. Easy, right? The hardest part is really tying the thread...I had trouble with that. 

~ The Dryad