You are flawed if you are not free

I began answering some of the questions asked here. There are a lot of good ones so I’m taking my time and splitting up the answers as some questions warrant an entire post of their own.

Michelle & the City asked:
What is your favorite Memory?

There’s a lot to choose from as I remember some of the weirdest parts of my childhood. I’d have to say one of my favorite memories is going to the forest preserves with big garbage bags to bring home leaves. Our backyard didn’t have a big tree in it and my cousins and I loved playing in the leaves. So my grandparents and our mothers would bring us to the forest preserves so we could rake up leaves, stick them in bags, bring them home and then pour them out in the backyard. Looking back, I wonder if people watching us thought we were crazy.

If you could travel back in time, where would you go and what would you do?
If I could go back to any time, I think I’d like to spend time in the roaring twenties era. I could be wrong, but the movie “Chicago” reminds me a lot of that time. I think I get caught up in all the lights, flare and music. Not so much the booze or murder. As for what I would do…I’d probably be a flapper and shimmy my way to fame!

What is your biggest fear?
I think ending up alone and unhappy would be my biggest fear. I tend to think a lot about my Aunt Mabel when asked this question. As long as I’d been alive she was always a pretty miserable woman. Sure she lived with my dad and grandma, but she was so alone. Nobody treated her with much respect, then again, neither did she. She didn’t care much about personal hygeine. She never really did much to better herself, but I think it’s from all the abuse she’s taken over the years. Okay I’m getting off track. I’m just so afraid that one day I’ll end up like her. While I don’t want to say her life was a waste, she couldn’t be happy with the life she had. She seemed to have given up all hope and never tried to find happiness. I never want to be that hopeless.

The Dutchess of Kickball asked:
If you could meet anyone from the past, who would it be and why?

Part of me would like to meet my grandpa on my dad’s side of the family. I have so many questions about our family’s history that nobody seems able to answer. I’d hope that he could shed some light on the secrets my dad and aunts keep.

Then again, out of everybody in the whole entire world, I think I’d like to meet Shakespeare in hopes that my beauty would inspire him so that he’d dedicate a sonnet to me One can dream!

The Struggling Writer asked:
What is your favorite gadget of all time?

The calculator. Hands down. That bad boy has gotten me through some very tough math years. Of course most would assume it would be a cell phone since I’ve had one glued to my hands since they were small enough to fit into them