Triple interesting

Maybe I'm just lucky or maybe it's earned, but I'm pleased to say I have a partner who finds, me interesting.

We do most things together which makes us both happy, and have the ability to surprise each other in pleasing ways after being together for a little while which helps to keep our relationship interesting and often exciting. We do things separately also; having similar and dissimilar likes is healthy, and both of us work towards doing interesting things and being interesting to the other person which is easy to do because we both change and evolve over time and with the experiences we have together and individually. That promotes an interesting life.

What makes me interesting though and naming three things that make me so is quite difficult. I guess it feels a immodest to say in some respects, however one of the #weekend-engagement topics asks for exactly that, "three interesting things about me", and it's the topic I've chosen.

I left school at the age of fifteen - I won an entry-level job in an industry I had wanted to be in almost all my life. It meant I'd need qualifications also so I applied for, and was accepted into, college and attended it concurrently with the job for several years until I was qualified. It was difficult as my mother struggled financially, but we did it together and once qualified I went on to create my own business which I've successfully operated for many years. It might not seem interesting to others, however when I look back and see the journey I took, the effort that went into it, I see it as a very interesting aspect of my life and one that has helped me create a good one, and to be a good version of myself.

I was in a Coke-a-Cola commercial - When I was younger I did some modelling and the agency I was with secured work for one of the other girls and myself to be in the commercial. I didn't have to talk, just sip Coke-a-Cola, but I was pretty nervous all the same. The day was enjoyable and it was fun to see the process, but I don't think I've had another sip of Coke-a-Cola since that day, I had enough to last a lifetime. I didn't pursue a career in modelling, I just wasn't interested in it, however did that commercial and two or three catwalk jobs before I gave it away. Thinking on it now, it was so unlike me to do it, I don't like attention, and that's the main reason I chose to stop. I earned a little money through it though, which helped my mother and I sustain our lives after my father had passed away.

I don't have a computer - I do not like social media, have literally zero interest in playing video games and have managed to get through my entire life without once having a computer of my own, even to this day. I've successfully managed to run my business without one, using my phone for emails and doing all my accounting and bookwork on a tablet or on my partners' computer if required; I used to do it all manually in ledger books but went digital thanks to the help of my man. I have no need for a computer of my own and to be quite honest don't really know how to use one all that well. My partner helps me if and when I need and I use his computer for Hive when I post and he's not on the computer himself working. I'm not sure if that's interesting or tragic really, but it's the reality. Having said this, I have a plan to go and do some computing courses to learn a little one of these days...but not yet.

That's it I suppose, three purportedly "interesting" things about myself that I really don't think people would find all that interesting. It's unlikely I'd strike up much of a conversation with a stranger on a plane as in the scenario in the topics and certainly wouldn't divulge much about myself if I did, but for the sake of this week's topics I felt it might be nice to share a few things.

Becca 💗

This is a response for the #weekend-engagement topics in the Weekend Experiences community.