{"id":220,"date":"2010-09-07T11:42:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T16:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetyahyah.wordpress.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-01-16T09:41:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:41:33","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.planetyahyah.com\/?page_id=220","title":{"rendered":"Kat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">I&#39;m <em>that<\/em> friend who needs a to-go cover on my drink whether I&#39;m going or not. If I seem a little slow on the uptake it&#39;s because <span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>I&rsquo;m figuring you out<\/em><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/introvertdear.com\/news\/infjs-feelings-process\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>.<\/u><\/a> Absorbing your intent &#8211; your true nature. It would be a mistake to judge me in the interim. Most of the things you care about, I never have. Not really. I say things like &quot;gosh darn-it&quot;, &quot;gee whizz&quot;, &quot;golly&quot; and &quot;goodness&quot; without shame or embarrassment. I think more people should follow my lead. I don&#39;t drink, smoke, and I&rsquo;ve never done drugs. I&#39;m likely your designated driver. Oh, and I say &quot;dangit&quot; lots, too. Do the same. <span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>Let&#39;s make the world a better place<\/em>.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/span> I think you&#39;re &quot;the best&quot; until you do something to make me think otherwise. I have a deep <span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>respect<\/em><\/span><\/span> for people older, <em>wiser<\/em>, and more <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>experienced<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"> than I am. <em><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">I have so much to learn<\/span><\/span>. <\/em>They have so much to teach. I can&#39;t lie. I don&#39;t cheat. And I&#39;ve never been arrested. I was <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>born out of time<\/em><\/span>. I don&#39;t understand tea drinkers. I try. But it&#39;s a challenge. I&#39;m the nagging reason my husband pulls over to ask if you need help. I grew weary of charlatans a long time ago. I&#39;m the chick in the topless Jeep with the decent sized tires, and the vanity plate that sums up, in two smashed-together-words, the privilege I have of being my husband&#39;s wife. <span style=\"color:#696969;\"><em><a href=\"mailto:yahyah@planetyahyah.com?subject=To%20YahYah%20-%20From%20PlanetYahYah.com\">Ask me what it says<\/a><\/em><\/span> sometime. <span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><em><span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">I have nothing to prove<\/span><\/em>.&nbsp; Maybe I should.&nbsp; But I don&rsquo;t. <\/span><\/span>I&#39;m a &quot;good catholic girl&quot; at heart, but my <span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>soul <\/em><\/span><\/span>is Buddhist &#8211; it always has been. I&#39;m an unapologetic vegetarian. Don&#39;t ask me why. You really don&#39;t want to know. I <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>lucid dream<\/em><\/span> on the regular.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m a &ldquo;middle brain&rdquo; thinker &ndash; have been all my life. I&rsquo;m wicked wordy. If you eat meat, I&#39;m ok with that.&nbsp; <span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.16personalities.com\/infj-personality\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#f2f2f2;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><em>INFJ<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u><span style=\"color:#f2f2f2;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> <\/span><\/span>in every way. <\/span><\/span>I don&#39;t &#39;dream big&#39;.&nbsp;&nbsp;Big&#8230; is <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>overrated<\/em><\/span><\/span>. &nbsp;What you show me, and what my intuition tells me about you, are two entirely different things.&nbsp;&nbsp;And they rarely &#8211; ever &#8211; agree. I love nightmares. People find that weird, but I find it exhilarating. High school was more boring than rough. <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Superficiality challenges me.<\/em><\/span><\/span> I don&#39;t &quot;pose&quot; and I&#39;m not fake. <a href=\"https:\/\/patientslounge.com\/mental-health\/hsp-highly-sensitive-person-noise-sensitivity\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#d3d3d3;\"><em><u>Sound annoys me<\/u><\/em><\/span><\/a>. In total contrast, I&#39;m pretty loud when I get upset. Can&#39;t help it, <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>it&#39;s who I am<\/em><\/span>. I&#39;m extremely passionate about what I care about. I&#39;m an <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>emotional<\/em><\/span> creature. I&#39;ve said it before and I&#39;ll say it again, &quot;blame my <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Pisces moon<\/span><\/em><\/span>&quot;. I do. I&#39;m #24. I don&#39;t care if I shine, so long as my projects do, and the people I work with are getting their kudos. Old Soul? Maybe. Not sure.&nbsp; But I do know&nbsp; <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I&#39;ve been here before<\/span><\/em><\/span> &#8211; many times. I know how I died &#8211; but nothing about how I lived.&nbsp; I watch your hypocrisy with non-judgment because we&#39;re all here to <em><span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">learn<\/span><\/em> on our journey, and I&#39;m not your teacher.&nbsp; People either &quot;get me&quot; right away, or they likely don&#39;t, at all.&nbsp; There&#39;s a reason for that.&nbsp; <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>If I had to choose a sense to lose<\/em><\/span>, it would be hearing.&nbsp; Hands down. No need to mull the options.&nbsp; I&#39;d go deaf. Fascinatingly enough, I sometimes <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em><strong>wake up with <span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">symphonies <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>playing<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em><strong> <span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">in my head<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">,&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve never heard before<\/span><\/span>.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s just as much a mystery to me as it probably is to you. <u><span style=\"color:#f2f2f2;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/i-am-a-highly-sensitive-person-heres-what-i-wish-more-people-knew-about-hsps\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">HSP<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/u><span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"> <\/span>whether I like it or not. Uncoventionally wired. Know that from the start. I&#39;m too much for you. Don&#39;t feel bad &#8211; I&#39;m too much for a lot of people.&nbsp; I don&#39;t lose sleep over it and neither should you.&nbsp; I&#39;m fascinated with capturing &quot;it&quot; on video. <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>I love my camcorders<\/em><\/span>. I love my <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>Mac<\/em><\/span>. I love the concepts of <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>story building<\/em><\/span> and <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>video production<\/em><\/span>, and I&#39;m a total <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">amateur<\/span><\/em><\/span> at it. I don&#39;t sing. I don&#39;t dance. And I don&#39;t have jokes. But I have a few camcorders I can keep pretty busy. <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>I expect more of myself than I do of you<\/em><\/span>.&nbsp; They were right. I went &quot;Mac&#8230; never goin&#39; back&quot;. When we make eye contact I&#39;m looking for depth.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&#39;m <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>subconsciously<\/em><\/span> reaching into your soul.&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>I can&#39;t help it<\/em><\/span><\/span>.&nbsp;&nbsp;I have to exert energy to stop it.&nbsp;&nbsp;If I don&#39;t make direct eye contact it&#39;s because I&#39;m making a conscious effort to avoid knowing any more about you than I&rsquo;ve already learned &#8211; without you having said a single word to me. <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Geophysicist<\/span><\/em><\/span>. I love volcanoes and earthquakes,&nbsp; but <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>Antarctica<\/em><\/span> will always be my destination of choice. I&#39;m fascinated with Easter Island, the Noorderlicht experience, and ancient cultures.&nbsp; Primitive people who seemed to have mastered the art of precision stonework fascinate me. I&#39;m not here to impress anyone.&nbsp; If I&#39;m stuck in a rat race you can find me observing from the back of the bus &#8211; watching everyone &#39;try&#39;.&nbsp; I just &#39;do&#39;.&nbsp; It usually works out just fine.&nbsp; For some things I have <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>opinions<\/em><\/span>, for most, I really don&#39;t. My perspective is, there&#39;s not a whole lot that will matter in a few years, when you really think about it. In contrast, I&#39;m probably one of the most <span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>intense<\/em><\/span><\/span>&nbsp; and <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>passionate<\/em><\/span> people you&#39;ll ever meet. I&#39;m also a Libra. I change my mind &#8211; a lot. I&#39;m not indecisive. It&#39;s far more complex than that. I don&#39;t abandon my <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>principles<\/em><\/span> . My scales must align. <span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>It&#39;s how we all get through this together<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/span> I&#39;m challenging. I&#39;m frustrating. I can be pushy, bossy, and demanding. But I&#39;m also more loyal than you can wrap your head around. <span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>Altruistic<\/em><\/span><\/span>. I keep my circle selectively tight.&nbsp; You&#39;re likely not in it.&nbsp; <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociotype.com\/socionics\/types\/EII-INFj\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#f2f2f2;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">EII<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/u> . I&#39;m grounded. I&#39;m hyper. I&#39;m all about moving forward without ever losing my grasp on where I&#39;ve been. For better or worse, I never lose my grasp on where I&#39;ve been. Don&#39;t cross me. There&#39;s a special place in the <span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>essence <\/em><\/span><\/span>of who I am that&#39;ll never forget. Part of me apologizes because we&#39;re all human, born to make mistakes. The rest of me &hellip; doesn&#39;t, because I&#39;m just as human as you are.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>passive<\/em><\/span>, but not forgetful. &nbsp;I&#39;ve been told I have a &#39;unique&#39; aura on more than one occasion and I&#39;ve been accused of being unusually <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>intuitive<\/em><\/span><\/span> at least as many times &#8230;<em> <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">if they only knew the half of it<\/span><\/em>. I don&#39;t work for you.&nbsp; I collaborate <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>with<\/em><\/span> you.&nbsp; Money means very, very, little to me.&nbsp; <span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>I&#39;ve been <\/em><em>blessed <\/em><em>in this life, of that, there is no question<\/em>.<\/span><\/span> I blow light bulbs, flip circuit breakers, and burn out electronics just by being &lsquo;there&rsquo;. My mood can determine whether or not your computer will make it through the day. I wouldn&#39;t let me touch it if I were you.&nbsp; I can&#39;t wear a watch directly against my skin. I don&#39;t have an agenda. <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>I do<\/em><\/span> things <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>because I want to<\/em><\/span> do them, not because I expect a payoff.&nbsp; If you find that hard to believe &#8211; that&#39;s on you.&nbsp; Doesn&#39;t change a thing on my end. No matter how much I do, it won&#39;t be enough.&nbsp; My standards.&nbsp; My rules.&nbsp; I&#39;ll never live up to my own expectations.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#39;s ok. It&#39;s part of my plan. I can&#39;t throw a frisbee.&nbsp; Grammar Nazi. Sorry Not Sorry. <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">I know why I&#39;m here<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span>.&nbsp; I often wonder why you think you are. Or &#8211; if you even think of why, at all.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyjunkie.com\/2016\/12\/26\/enfjs-infjs-empathy-burnout\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><u> <\/u><\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologyjunkie.com\/2016\/12\/26\/enfjs-infjs-empathy-burnout\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><u><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">I feel<\/span><\/span><\/u><\/em><\/a> .&nbsp; <\/span><\/span>I organize.&nbsp; Whenever I get a cold I&rsquo;m pretty sure this is it.&nbsp; This is how I&rsquo;ll die. <span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>They all told me to be a writer<\/em><\/span><\/span>.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m not a leader.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m not a follower. If you have information I find interesting <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>we could get along just fine<\/em><\/span>. <em>Visual-Spatial<\/em>.&nbsp; I think in pictures.&nbsp; I need constant intellectual stimulation.&nbsp; I need to be moving.&nbsp; I need to be learning. I need to be creating. I don&#39;t do &quot;bored&quot; well. I can tell when you&#39;re selling yourself and it makes my lip curl.&nbsp;&nbsp;Even though &#8211; I&#39;ll tolerate you &ldquo;doin&#39; you&rdquo; because everyone has their reasons for doing the things they do. <span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>I&#39;m no exception<\/em><\/span><\/span>. I come from an ancestry of European royalty, kings &amp; queens, a canonized saint, and a revolutionary hero. My <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>heritage <\/em><\/span>is written in history, but I&#39;m my grandfather&#39;s progeny. Roman Catholic, French-Canadian, mill workers and migrant farmers. I&#39;m <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>that<\/em><\/span> person who&#39;s always looking for <span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>&quot;better people&quot; <\/em><\/span><\/span>in this world, hoping I&#39;ll find them and hoping it won&#39;t be too late, <span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>so I can learn<\/em><em> from their example<\/em><\/span><\/span>. I believe being selfless is the key. <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>The meaning<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>of life<\/em><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>is lost<\/em><\/span> here. It&#39;s lost now. It&#39;s been lost for a very, very long time. Just one of the things I think about at night when I can&#39;t sleep. I don&#39;t buy into &quot;politically correct&quot;.&nbsp;If you can do it, so can I. <em><span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">I never question my ability.<\/span><\/em>&nbsp; Only my desire. I abandoned religious based <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>belief<\/em><\/span> structures a long time ago. The same music that gives me goosebumps in one instant can leave me, literally, nauseous in the next. <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>I&rsquo;m awkward<\/em><\/span><\/span>.&nbsp; Is there a word that denotes &ldquo;more awkward than awkward&rdquo;? Because at times, I think I might be that. I don&#39;t watch awards shows on television because I think they&#39;re <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>shallow<\/em><\/span>, and I also think they help perpetuate shortcomings in Western values. On that note, I do care about the <span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><em>artistry<\/em><\/span><\/span> involved in entertainment. I respect the trade. I&#39;m left handed. I love the <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>mystery<\/em><\/span> involved with bigfoot stories and UFO sightings.&nbsp; Impermanence is no friend of mine. &#39;Conformity&#39; can suck it, too.<span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>&nbsp; I&#39;m &quot;average&quot;<\/em><\/span>. My <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>sincerest<\/em><\/span> of life&#39;s <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>laments<\/em><\/span> will always be &hellip; missing out on the people I never met &hellip; the soul-to-soul connections I never made &hellip; and the experiences I never had. That&#39;s &hellip; it. The experiences I never sought.&nbsp; The opportunities I never pursued.&nbsp; The things I never did and the chances I never took.&nbsp; <span style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><em>There are so many lifetimes to be lived.<\/em><\/span>&nbsp; I chose my path. I own this road. I live in complete contentment, regretting nothing, not even my worst of days.&nbsp; And &#8230; I will leave this life with stories I never had the time to finish, because I plan on journeying until the very end.&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m that friend who needs a to-go cover on my drink whether I&#39;m going or not. If I seem a little slow on the uptake it&#39;s because I&rsquo;m figuring you out. Absorbing your intent &#8211; your true nature. It would be a mistake to judge me in the interim. 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