Everyone Loves a Boston Girl

Sometimes you don’t realize your flaws until your friends and family point them out to you. I recently realized how many things I suck at because people have told me. If I didn’t have my loving family and friends, I’d probably have this warped sense of self.

Things I’m no good at:

-Colors. I am kind of color blind, but in more of a “nobody ever taught me colors so I suck at telling them apart” kind of way. Basically I had been wearing a brown belt with black outfits for 3 years. Hello, I would never do this on purpose. One day, my friend asked why I was wearing it. I didn’t understand. I finally believed them when several friends told me the same thing. “Ugh,” I said to my then-boyfriend, “can you believe I’ve been wearing this without even knowing it?” “Umm, yeah” he said, “I’ve been trying to tell you that for the past year.” Oops. I still really think it’s black. I also have A LOT of trouble telling the difference between blue and green and I’m having a really difficult time coming to terms with it. I swear on my life something is green when others tell me it’s blue. Similar problems with pink and red. It’s really frustrating.

-Rhythm. I have the worst rhythm in the world. My first piano teacher gave me the award for “best rhythm” one year probably because I sucked at everything and she felt bad for me. I was quite proud of my award and decided I should learn to play the drums. My mom didn’t let me. Years later, my new piano teacher looked at me and said “You have the worst rhythm of anyone I have ever met in my life.” He told me I was hopeless and it was too late to un-learn my bad habits. Dreams were crushed. A couple months ago, my friends and I were at singalong and I was clapping along to a song. All the sudden I noticed all my friends staring at me. “What?” I questioned. “Whattt are you doing?” they laughed at me. Apparently, I cannot even clap along to a song. That’s how bad it is.

-Pointing. I’m a pointer. Supposedly I point a lot. Who knew? I didn’t, until a friend pointed (haha) it out and everyone agreed. I think I have a quiet voice and point for emphasis. Now I am extremely self conscious about my pointing and work really hard not to point. This results in a lot of half-points.

-Eating. Basically I make a lot of noise when I’m eating something that’s really really good. I seriously can’t help it and just make “mmmmmmm” sounds the whole time I’m eating. Until my friends or family tell me to shut up. I feel like you should just take it as a compliment if I’m mmmm’ing while I’m eating food you made and deal with it. I clearly can’t control it.