keepingintouch | Get to Know You Question #2: Joys

(Question was: "Three Greatest Joys", replacing "Three Fears", with a challenge of daily niceties. Journey's post.)

Guess I'll go first! -- Journey

I despise focusing on the negatives. Wrote a journal entry a few weeks ago about how my life philosophy is always finding something good about you, whether it's unusual or common or whatever.

So alternative it is!

TRAVEL - flight, water, balloons, boats, give me a way to travel and I'm an extraordinarily happy person. This was a battle to realize, and one of those things everyone knew about me before I knew it myself and long, long before I was out of denial about it. I love movement and going places, exploration, and discovery.

PHOTOGRAPHY - a hobby turned job turned passion. I love capturing moments. I get criticized for living through lenses sometimes, and I embarrass all my friends, but I get to have an art all my own, and an understanding gained only through the lens.

ARTIFACTS - not something I share usually, mostly cause I can't get into as much as I like. I'm a live in the moment sort of person, but I also really like old stuff. Vintage photos and the sense of humor and personality that comes out of a lot of them. Vintage notes and vintage old stuff, especially if it is stuff that was commonplace "back then" or (again) related to transportation.

As a side note, related to that, I really like steampunk stuff, pirates, and plane stories. Not so much cowboys and trains though. League of Extraordinary Gentleman is just about the ultimate awesome combination of this stuff.

I suspect Cory still intends to reply to this herself and to actually get around to meeting her own personal challenge despite being a weekend behind now. Going to try to prod others to get involved too!