My Philosophy of Life

This is my first attempt at blogging. I have been trying to keep a journal for years. But it turns out that the only time I really write in it is when I am either depressed or angry. So when I look back at my old journals I seem exceptionally psycho. I am hoping they don't fall into my still unconceived children's hands when I am gone, and they will think that their mom really really was nuts. Therefore, I have decided that if I blog, it will give me a way to share my day whether I am sad or happy and may have a more complete view of how I view life.

The title of my first post is "Philosophy of Life." I chose this, because I was recently asked in an interview "What is your philosophy of life?" My answer was pretty lame if I recall. To give me some credit, I had been doing the interview for 2 hours by the time they got to this question so maybe I could have come up with something more eloquent than "Work hard, Play hard..." In any case, I suppose that is my pedantic way of saying my general philosophy, but I want a good way to say it. I am also a forever dreamer, always thinking up new options and angles to situations. I always am in the search of new adventures, so much in fact that I think I tend to live in the future too much instead of just living in the day. I would say I am forever an optimist, and strive for myself and people around me to make the most of their life. So maybe this blog will give me a way to think about how to put my philosophy of life into a nice Abraham Lincolnian type of phrase.

This paragraph made me think of another interview question that stumped me while I was interviewing for residency. At Utah, they asked me: "If you could meet anyone from History who would that be?" Now that may sound like a pretty easy and generic question and one that someone who had interviewed as much as I have, would be able to answer. But quite frankly, it threw me. First of all, I am ashamed to say that I know little history. I wish I did, but I need to find a fun way to learn it. I try to read books about the subject, but I end up reading the first few chapters then scrapping it for a fiction novel. Movies are okay, but honestly you cant learn history from a movie. I need to have my little bro school me on the subject. My honest answer to the question was : Madame Curie. To this day, I still haven't looked up what she actually is famous for. Something in science and she was a woman. I'm so glad they didn't ask me what she actually did. My thought process in my 10 seconds to think was: "Can't say Gandi because that's too overdone, can't say Jesus or Buddha because too divisive, can't say Oprah because she's alive, can't say Bob Marley because then they will think I smoke pot, can't say a president because I don't know shit about any of them, oh I know, I will pick this random woman's name out of thin air and say that." I think I was saved because maybe my interviewer didn't know who she was either.

Now onto my stationary bike, the food network, and then some wine...