The Social Porcupine

I have this really great friend - we love to debate like crazy (both of us say the bluntest things and laugh our heads off the whole time). One would think that we would have offended each other by now...yet we've been friends for years and our friendship just seems to get deeper and more opinionated ;p This may have something to do with both of us being passionate ENTJ's ;)  Anyways, a while back (sometime in February or March) we were texting right before I left for a trip. Life was very good , and some great things were happening.  Like a good friend, she was pretty happy for me. "You deserve this," she said. Now the opinionated me disagreed with her (as normal) . I was sure that I did not deserve what was happening in my life.  It was just too good - I felt unworthy.  I mean, seriously, who deserves anything good? Sometimes we observe some awesome, kind, loving people.  But we know that all fall sh...

A while back some friends and I were laughing and talking. I can't remember exactly how we got on the subject (it seems we were throwing out crazy plot twists), but however it happened I said something like "What if you wrote this story and the main character had no talents whatsoever and..." One of the guys said, "That isn't right. When God created us he gave us all gifts and talents and places in life. No-one is created with out a purpose." Normally I defend what I say, but this time what he said hit me as true. What I had said was VERY unbiblical. When I write I try to make all my stories at least follow certain biblical principles even if my stories aren't necessarily "Christian" genre. Needless to say, that story idea was trashed :). Yet what I had said many would consider true. Just look about you. There are many, many people that appear to have nothing, do nothing, know nothing. They are "ugly", "untalented...