| This Is My Life, Rated | |
| Life: |  5.6 |
| Mind: | 5.9 |
| Body: |  4.1 |
| Spirit: |  5.2 |
| Friends/Family: |  7.1 |
| Love: |  10 |
| Finance: | 7 |
| Take the Rate My Life Quiz | |
Sir Phil was doing this Rate My Life Quiz and flicked me the link so I could complete it while we were chatting on the phone. The response I got was pretty bloody ordinary I think…5.6 out of 10… Thanks Sir_Phil for reminding me how crap my life is!!! And then I read the short analysis that came under the pretty graph. Apparently I’ve scored much higher than average on the Love aspect of my life – my score… 10, average score… 4.3 from 961,533 respondents. And it came up with this blurb –
Your Love score is very high, much higher than the average. If you wouldn’t mind, please take a little time to explain how you manage to succeed so well at this aspect of your life. Your words may be read by someone else who scored very low. Take a moment to give them some useful advice. Your thoughts are very much appreciated.
So I was trying to come up with some useful advice… hmmm…. I couldn’t think of anything! Which is excessively rare for me. Normally I’m full of advice for my friends about managing relationships (Well, full of something!! 🙂 But in this context …. still can’t think of anything. Why am I happy with my love life? hmmm,…. well MrK is my best friend. We live in the same house, and yet see other people. Neither of us gets bent out of shape about the other one’s choices and so far I think the reason it’s working for us is because we’re as honest with each other as humanly possible. There’s no bullshit there, no second guessing, no attempting to manipulate each other… everything is just out in the open. I rarely hold back from telling people how I’m feeling and have never held back anything from MrK. I find it exhausting to be in a relationship (even a friendship) where you can’t just be yourself and speak your mind, and so tend to avoid people who aren’t able to cope with a brutal honesty every now and then.
Anyway, I think being open and honest about who you are and what you want is probably the most important thing. But I think it’s also something that a lot of people find really difficult because they’re worried they wont be accepted for who they really are and so tend to present a version of themselves – sometimes that’s a sanitized, more socially accepted version of themselves – in the hope that potential partners will find them more readily acceptable. Or maybe I’m just talking shit 🙂 I’m off to bed.
Try asking me again next week and you’ll probably get a very different story!!! 🙂