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What's odd about you?
List the things about you that are odd (or that you perceive as odd).
What about you is different from the mainstream, your peers, or simply those around you?
- I've never owned a car, and I've rarely driven one; I only recently got my driver's licence and I'm well into my thirties.
- I rarely watch TV, and have done so since I was a teenager.
- I'll eat just about anything. There are few things I won't eat, even if it's cheap/crappy. The only time I complain in a restaurant is if I didn't get something and I really wanted it.
- It's nearly impossible for me to get bored; being bored is a state that's foreign to me.
- I didn't lose my virginity until I was in my twenties.
- I was married and divorced by my mid-twenties.
- I have both a college diploma (business) and a university degree (liberal arts) but earn a salary that would barely place me in the middle class.
- I have five siblings.
- I don't get out much; I interact with very few people week to week.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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