1. I confuse right and left a lot and usually forget which way is which. The way I figure it out is by twitching my right leg, and there's a story behind this!
When I used to do Kung Fu we'd regularly have to switch our leg positions to do our different Shaolin Power Fist sets or simple kick/punch movements. Whenever we'd have to switch legs our Master (now Grand-master! <3) would shout out "Right/Left leg back!", so whenever I forget right/left I move my right leg back as a reflex and remember.
Another small story is about our teacher, Master Kravets. Since the day I met him when I was 9 I've only ever called him that! He has a name of course, but even outside the dojo it always felt wrong to address him in any other way. His wife, who was also one of our teachers, we called Sifu! I've always addressed them as those names and even though I don't practice Kung Fu anymore (though I really would love to...) I still call them by those names, because as cheesy as it sounds, they're still my teachers and I will always respect them that way.
2. One time when I went to the dentist there was a male nurse/assistant who was taking my x-rays.
While we were walking to the rooms he asked me what my name was. I told him Laura and he asked if I liked my name. I told him no, and then he asked what I'd change it to if I could. I told him "I wouldn't change it." and then he asked why.
I didn't have time to catch myself and ended up answering "Because sometimes you just have to deal with things you don't like." He was surprised and even gasped a little, which made me blush a bit. I don't remember exactly what he said, but it was sometimes along the lines of "That's very wise, more people should think like that."
I don't know why, but it really made me happy.
3. One of the times that I've felt close to peace was one night in December 2010. I was dating my best friend then, and she was having a sleep-over. The two of us sneaked outside and sat in my mom's meditation garden, looking at the stars and talking. I was wearing my new $50 coat and the two of us were struggling to sit on the chair together. She was really cold so we didn't get to stay out long, I remember really wanting to stay out there and watch the stars with her.
4. When I was with my girlfriend I was really touchy-feel-y and a general cuddler. We'd always be joined at the hip and talking each other's ears off until someone dragged us apart and whenever she'd sleep over we'd always be in the same bed (there was no way either of us would settle for the floor). Now, since I was a cuddler, we'd automatically spoon. I was always the big spoon and I'd always have to have my arms around her waist otherwise I couldn't sleep.
To this day, even though I don't see her anymore, I still have the habit. After doing for my whole childhood, I can't sleep unless I have my arms around a pillow or sleep in a position where my arms are doing something.
5. During one of the time when my cousin was visiting me my house, me and her decided to play with the candle I had in my room. We took popsicle sticks, matches, and scrap pieces of paper and fed it to the fire we started in a small tin can. After five or ten minutes, it got so big that it set the fire-detector off!
Now, my mom was sleeping, so we were both immediately scared that it was going to wake her up. The two of us yelled at each other to get water and I ended up running down the hall to our bathroom, cupping water from the faucet in my hands and running back to dump it on the pit we'd started.
The entire area of the dresser it was sitting on was scorched and I ended up having to make three trips in order to put it out. By then, my cousin had run out of the room and into my sisters.
My mom woke up, of course, and came to see what the problem was. My cousin strolled out of my sister's room and put on a surprised face while saying "What happened? :O" I ended up lying through my teeth and as soon as the alarm shut off me and my cousin wrestled then laughed it off.
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