Did that answer really come out of my mouth???

My answer to this question that is.. This was posted on a blog I frequent "So now that I am starting my day off on a positive note, tell me one random thing you are thankful for?"

ME: "I’m thankful that I’m single, even though there are moments I absolutely HATE being single but I know I couldn’t do 1/2 the things I’m doing now if I had a serious relationship or kids right now."

I just went back to that blog to see if anything new had been posted because I'm killing time at work at the moment and saw my response and it made me think...I really believe that answer to be true but I just can't believe I put it out there and out of my head! Seeing it makes it more real to me...anyway...that was this morning and this afternoon this happened...

I had this conversation with someone that I basically shut out of my life for a while because I was just tired of them and the drama....I haven't talked to this person for months..I shouldn't have answered the IM **meanface** and kept ignoring them like I've been doing, but they actually made me think...

THEM: i have a question for you.... i hope you feel comfortable enough to share it with me....
Angie: you always have a question for me
THEM: i do... because you are so secluded....
THEM: you are an island....
Angie: whatever

I answered their question not with a response they were wanting I'm sure but the whole me being secluded and an island made me think. I hate to think (about me)...Am I secluded? Do I not let people in? Really an island? As in this??





















look how lonely it looks all around that water... lol

is·land ..

–noun
1. a tract of land completely surrounded by water, and not large enough to be called a continent.
2. something resembling an island, esp. in being isolated or having little or no direct communication with others.
7. an isolated hill.
–verb (used with object)
10. to make into an island.
12. to place on an island; isolate.

I'm really sitting here thinking whether or not I create island-like relationships. I'm almost 100% sure that I do. Mostly because I don't want everyone I associate with all in my business and sometimes I just don't like people. I'm a great people person in general, can work a room/crowd, meet folks, etc etc but when it comes to friendships/relationships, I guess it just takes me a while to open up to the real me, but who isn't like that? I know that's not unique to me...but then I think about how I am with my bestfriends and I have been guilty of creating island like moments with them. I know I don't have to be cast away to realize the things that I do but I disagree that I'm an island. I have island like tendencies sometimes but definitely NOT an island...

Wonder if those 2 things are coincidental...at any rate.

**back on ignore this person goes**

Brown...out!