for the ask meme thingy
1, 3, 7, 12,16 ,21, 28, 34, 36, 40
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thank you aj!! 🥰
1. what would you say are 3 things that shaped who you are? ooh that's a tricky one!! unfortunately, being ill and then getting better between 2016 and 2018 was the biggest one.. i'm not usually particularly open about it all on here but i had anorexia during my first year of teaching and it changed a lot about me? treatment/recovery from that did lead to some good things though, as i completely lost my love of reading for a while and my now fiancé suggesting to me that i try non-fiction when i was starting to get better led to me finding a subject that i loved so much that i ended up doing my masters in it! i've had a couple of wobbles even after finishing treatment, but i'm getting there with accepting that there are some parts of it that never go away and knowing how i can keep going despite those ☺️
3. 3 films you could watch for the rest of your life and never get bored of? i know that i already answered this one but there are still more that i enjoy that much that i could watch them over and over! pretty woman, pride and prejudice, and
7. what scares you the most and why? death/dying i think? i'm a firm atheist, so the thought that you're here and then one day, suddenly that's it is pretty terrifying!
12. what's some good advice that you want to share? i can't remember the exact wording of the post, but there was something on here i reblogged the other day that basically says that you will sometimes fall into pits as far as mental health is concerned/that recovery is in no way linear, but you will come out of it and it's absolutely okay if those setbacks happen because there will always be a light at the end of the tunnel to reach for! that one really resonates with me for a lot of reasons 😄
16. if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? maybe my legs would be a couple of inches shorter, i think? i'm 5'8", but my legs are long enough that it makes shopping for trousers/skirts/dresses etc difficult because they're always shorter on me than a lot of other people i know 😂
21. are you a spiritual person? as much as i'd love to be, i'm too logically brained for that.. i do find the reasoning behind why people believe in those sorts of things fascinating though!
28. do you collect anything? music! i have a lot of cds, and have got into collecting and playing vinyl now that i've got a record player! i had a CD player in my old car but my current one doesn't, which i'm still gutted about to be honest 😩
34. any pet peeves? people who don't use their indicators when driving!! especially when someone only puts theirs on as they get to a roundabout i'm about to pull out onto, that makes me really mad 😂
36. are you an open book or do you have walls up? i'm not sure, i'm probably a bit of a contradiction here because i'm definitely one of those people who tells everyone when something silly is eating away at me, but at the same time i'm awful at asking for help when it's something important that i'm struggling with?
40. any bad habits? swearing too much! i have such a potty mouth outside of the classroom, and being on here has probably encouraged it i think 🙈
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