Here's some insight about yours truly; no quiz required

I never participate in those Facebook chain posts where it asks you to answer questions like

• what’s your age?

• have you ever been married or divorced?

• what was the last thing you ate?

Because honestly, I’ve always thought they were pointless. What does that really tell anyone about you? It doesn’t give people insight into who you are as a person.

Then I had this thought the other day: What would give people insight into who I am?

These are the things that came to mind:

• For about four years of my childhood, I obsessively wore my very baggy, homemade Mickey Mouse pants my mom made for me. My mom made them baggy on purpose, because I hated clothes of any kind unless they were loose and baggy. My sisters always called them my MC Hammer pants.

• When I was little, I wanted to be everything. I went through a detective phase, an astronaut phase, a veterinarian phase. But one thing always remained consistent through all the phases — I wanted to write stories about all of my adventures in any of these noble professions.

• The three moments in my life that impacted/changed me the most were coming out of three years of abusive relationships, when my friendship with my best friend of eight years ended and when I lost a very good friend who was my age — I remember thinking for the next six months that I was never going to be able to breathe right again.

• Most people don’t know this, because I rarely bring it up, but I have a preoccupation with flying, and I love reading about the Wright brothers. Anytime I’ve been asked what super power I would want, I say flying, hands down. I would also get my pilot’s license in a heartbeat if I could afford it.

• I also love reading about unsolved mysteries — the Romanov dynasty, the Loch Ness monster, the Bermuda Triangle (my favorite, by far).

• I regularly walk around humming the “Indiana Jones” theme song. I have no idea why. It just makes me feel pumped and motivated for some reason. Yes, I have received weird looks at work for this.

• Other than my husband, the only two people who have seen me at rock bottom and still loved me through it are two of my best friends, Adam and Caitlin, and they are both forever endeared to my heart for that.

• I have a folder that is stuffed full of quotes. I’ve collected quotes for years. Not really inspirational quotes. Random things that jump out at me and speak to me, such as lines or paragraphs from books, song lyrics and I’ve even written down lines from movies and saved them.

Now you know something about the real me.

Alisa Boswell is managing editor for the Portales office of The Eastern New Mexico News. Contact her at: [email protected]