My husband and I take care of a family of feral cats. They’re fixed, they get fed, they have warm sleeping places, and can climb up on the roof, but they prefer to keep their distance from humans. Occasionally, the two sisters will have a dispute and start swatting at one another. When this happens, the shy little brother cat will purposely walk between them, and they instantly stop fighting.
Earlier this year, I had my first real job. I was still in college and had applied at the school bookstore for a seasonal position right before Christmas. I got the job, but didn’t start till around Martin Luther King’s birthday. On I think my 2nd day of work, I was still getting used to everything, was very nervous and kinda felt lonely and left out since I was a new person and didn’t know anyone, you know how it is when you are new at a job. I had just gotten back from my lunch break and I was starting to pack up an order in the online room to go out for delivery, and in walks this girl i’ve never seen before. I supposed she was a new hire like me and she started doing the same stuff at the same table as me. We looked at each other and all of a sudden out of nowhere, just started talking like we had known each other all our lives. That kind of thing NEVER happens to me. I am super shy, I rarely talk to anyone unless they speak to me first, I wish I could fully explain the magnitude of how strange and unique this situation was for me. We were best friends immediately, spent the whole rest of our shifts together and every shift we had together afterwards. It was my senior year, I had just that semester left before I graduated, and she was the first and only friend I made at college. We both ended up losing the job because it was seasonal, but when I did lose it, I actually cried lol. I was so sad that we wouldn’t be able to hang out all the time each week during our job. I’ve had anxiety all my life and its kept me from doing a lot, i’m glad I pushed myself to get the job because if I hadden’t, I wouldn’t have met her. I’m so beyond thankful that I met her and we are still best friends. I asked her recently “How DID we really meet, do you even remember what was said?” and she laughed and said no, that she just remembered that it was so unexpected and easy, as if we were never strangers. It was unlike anything that had ever happened to either of us. It really goes to show that the people that we will find the people who are meant to be in our lives, everything falls into place right when its supposed to=)
My dog, Daisy, has times when she has a really happy day. We call it a “Daisy Day”. So now when you notice you’re having a good day, you can think to yourself that you’re having a Daisy Day c:
I’m bisexual. I pretty much always knew given once I started getting crushes they were always on both girls and boys. I just didn’t know there was a name for it until I understood what family members meant when they were saying bad things about LGBT people.
And by then it was when I would actually date other people as opposed to the more innocent crushes of elementary years. So I kept it secret. I did keep a diary thought and I wrote about a girl crush in one and my Dad read it and FREAKED OUT. So I totally denied everything. My Mom also sent me some article about calling out gay people on their sin so I assumed she suspected too and totally denied it to her as well.
Well in my later 20s I finally told both of them despite my fears. I learned my Dad freaked out cause at that time I was 15 and he didn’t want me to be sexually active. And he’s entirely supportive. I learned my Mom actually agreed with the reference in the article about a pastor who loves his kid because he’s gay, and not in spite of it. And she supports me too, although is pretty confused about the whole thing.
tl;dr// I figured my religious and apparently anti-LGBT parents wouldn’t accept me for being bi. When I finally told them they were supportive and not upset at all.