"tag it forward" - the game2
By reading twitters around it seems like yesterday has been a sort of de-lurking day. I didn't put effort in that, so here I pay the penalty by eventually joining the 5 things about you bandwagon. For the sake of google justice, I must say that I've been tagged by Davide (at least that I noticed).
So without further ado, here we go:
1. For more than two years I regularly meditated (well, tried to) half an hour every day. That changed my perception of the world enormously. Since then, I value discipline as one of the most precious traits, even if on the other hand I still find it difficult to accept it and apply it to my life most of the time.
2. The nickname Bru is self assigned, and comes from that era of the Net when the nick was the only concept of avatar available. It's a short for brujah, which means (almost, the actual word being bruja) witch in Spanish but is also a vampiric clan in the role playing game Vampire: the masquerade. Yes, I used to be a storyteller. As a trivia, Bru came after a few unsuccessful other nicknames like "respawn" and "bodhran". (Well, this was something many people already knew, but at least maybe I can prevent some new ones from asking).
3. Speaking of role playing games, one of my (not so) secret unfulfilled dreams at that time was to play the whole Dragonlance saga once (even if I can't say to have been a fan of the novels at all). I tried three times and then gave up: everybody was getting bored after the first meeting at the inn (day 1, page 3 out of 300). Ok, it's a lousy beginning, but it gets much better after that... oh well...
4. I stil know by heart the phone number of my first "love", which dates back to the '80s. On the other hand, I don't know my current mobile number.
5. I'm really, really bad at sports, all of them. I just don't buy the idea of competition, it always made me sick (and tend to have an enormous inertia, too). On the other hand, put me in front of a mountain and I'll get to the top. No matter the odds.
Phew, done. Feeling much better now :)
Feel free to consider yourself tagged, whoever you are. As for my personal curiousity, would love to read Lilia's 5 things, especially in this moment of her life (I mean, shifting of priorities and so on), but wouldn't force that of course :)
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The guy behind the red nose and this blog is Riccardo "Bru" Cambiassi.
Point 1 is something I want do do... since a few months ago and it's building up. Discipline, uh? That's something I have to build up.
Point 5 is amazing in my perspective, also in the "inertia" concept. Not about sports (since you got it well with the mountain metaphore a while after) but about competition and inertia. And also, I'm usual in using the mountain as a common metaphore.
Competition is something that drawns me too much, too many times. I'm trying hard to get out of it. I hate it still sometimes I get caught. Maybe it's right becaus I "hate" it.
Thank you for point 2....I asked you about the meaning of Bru, but you were a little evasive.
Finally my curiosity is satisfied!