25 Random facts about me

I often get these requests/emails from people but don't act on it. Then another arrived on facebook from a close friend. In reading what he listed I learnt so much in those 25 lines about him than I had known for a very long time. Maybe it felt safe to share, somethings from his past, some from now and some from the future. So I replied with mine knowing that this list would be different everytime I wrote it:

1. When I was a little girl I thought I was adopted because every time I looked at our family albums there were tonnes of photos of my brother and a very few of me. So I convinced myself that I was an adopted child.
2. I was quiet and yet naughty as a child (and had a good partner in crime, my brother), and always curious about life. I wanted to see if ants could swim so I drowned a handful of ants in the process, I wanted to see how crayons melted so I built a fire on the dinner table with my brother, I wanted to see how high I could I climb up on the sand/cement mixes in building sites and was too afraid to climb down again.
3. I thought little people lived inside our radio and one day got fed up with their voices and decided to pour water in through the speakers to flood them.
4. My biggest loss in life has been my biggest gain, my brother's life. I now feel that he is part of me and always with me, and I still learn from him
5. I hug trees
6. I touch all historic buildings, monuments, pyramids and close my eyes to imagine myself back in those times
7. I go to the zoo every year. I would rather see animals in their own nature but that's not always easy
8. I enjoy older people's company, their stories, watching the creases on their faces. When I am more settled and have a family I want to adopt a granny because I don't have left now.
9. I sing aloud when I'm driving my car alone (and sometimes with people) especially opera
10. I love classical music. I was always envious of my brother's musical talent and when I said I wanted to play the piano with him he would give me a chord to repeat while I sat at the edge of his chair and he did some amazing solo at the other end. I would always ask him to play the Moonlight Sonata for me.
11. I laugh when I do silent farts and especially when they smell…Liz, this one is for you for our car journeys in USA and Australia
12. I love to eat…my god, I absolutely LOVE food…I say this one with great passion and those who know me KNOW how much I love food
13. I write a gratitude list every few months to appreciate people, places and beings in my life
14. I see such beauty in life that I sometimes get overwhelmed and cry
15. I love what I do and do what I love…otherwise I stop doing it
16. I play games in public, especially early mornings as I travel into work, on the bus or on the streets. I catch people's eyes and when we really meet I give them a big smile
17. I really don't like it when people talk at me. I disconnect and switch off. One way communication seems useless
18. I have a fetish of walking on fresh snow or crunchy leaves in autumn time because I love the sound it makes under my shoes
19. I can play with my cat for hours and just be
20. With the help of my parents (not sure how accurate some of the names are) I did our family tree 2 years ago and found out I have 35 first and 54 second cousins.
21. Adopting children is becoming more important for me as I believe there are many babies in the world who need love and waiting for a warm home
22. I pull up my bottom pyjamas really high because I don't like it when the top half twists around as I keep turning in bed
23. I used to be afraid of dying or more that time was going to run out, I use to make lists of things I wanted to try and achieve before I died. But now seeing that I am simply an energy moving in and out of form I'm not afraid to die and I'm content to be insignificant in this life. My favourite quote is Mother Teresa who said "we're not hear to do great things life, we are hear to do small things with great love"
24. I own more books than I have read. I have a lot of catching up to do
25. My current mantra (given to me by Lucy Scott) is "I am now ready for the man of my life and he is coming". Without ego, without changing or manipulating each other, with support, pure love, to communicate and to share for as little or as long time we may have.