My Brain is Like Daedalus’ Labyrinth…

… and sometimes I get lost in there 😜.

I’m going to let you in on a little secret…

When I am prepping my posts, I usually start writing them in my head, testing out different first lines, seeing if I can make an idea fly. If I’m really on a roll, I’ll have the whole thing plotted out before I type a single word.

But sometimes I may start with one idea that totally takes a left turn at Albuquerque (Bugs Bunny fans will get the reference 😁) and sometimes becomes a totally different post from where I started. Today, I thought I would chart the path of how I worked through today’s post  – be warned it is a maze in my brain sometimes 😳.

So, I started thinking about how I wish finding a new possible life partner would be so easy if we did it like House Hunters. Present my wish list, be set up with three men that are similar to my list, go on a date with each one and pick the one best suited for me. Easy peasy.

I thought what would be on my wish list: A man who cooks, a man who greets me with joy at least once a day and a man who is tolerant of other cultures and the LBGTQ+ community (which is very important to me). And at first, I thought is tolerant a word or did I make that up. Well, there is intolerant so tolerant must be a word, right? Geez, I can’t even remember if it’s a real word or not. Now I have to look it up 🤦‍♀️. I literally had this conversation in my head for about five minutes 😮.

Once I convinced myself that tolerant was a real word I thought “Well that sounds condescending to other cultures and the LBGTQ+ community 😡” (mad face is meant for me). So, I tried out other words like accepting or agreeable and those sounded just as bad 🙄 (again for me 😁). Which led me down the thought process of how magnanimous we are to allow these different groups to exist in our space (yes, sarcasm) and I just spiraled from there 😵‍💫. Finally, I pulled myself out of the death spiral and settled on wanting a man that acknowledges and respects all manner of people. Or, in other words – isn’t a dick to people who are different than him 🤷‍♀️. 

And that’s how my mind works somedays. Scary, isn’t it 😱?