I've been told that a strength of mine is being kind. I say this is a controversial strength, because sometimes people make me mad. But doesn't that happen to everyone? Maybe not as much as I do, but still. I really like the part of knowing that if I just smile at someone, give them a compliment, or invite them to come and talk to me and some friends, I could be making their day. I feel like that makes me sound self-centered, but that's not the way I mean it. Knowing that by doing something so incredibly simple smiling or defending someone in a stupid conversation, you can make them smile, and put them in a good mood, causing the same effect to go back around with them and another person. I love that, and loving that makes me smile, sometimes starting another cycle that's just the same.
Another strength of mine is creativity, or so I'm told. I like to create things. Sometimes, they turn out really bad and I just throw them out. However, every once and a while, they turn out cool and I'll keep them. One summer, I went to a baby shower with my mom. They gave us 'party favors' in a small box. I kept the box, I liked it. Later, I had an idea. I started putting things that were important to me in it. Then, around the middle of this year, I was going through difficult stuff and I felt really isolated. I decided to write down the names of people who I believed to care about me. My list ranged from class mates, to underclassmen, to upperclassmen, to family, to teachers. When I finished, I cut out the names and put them in along with my important things. Now when I get upset, I take down the box and go through it. It's important to me and I think that it expresses my creativity in a way. I've had that box about a year now, and no one knew about it until now.
One last strength of mine is, as a friend told me, "You are a strong, confident woman." Well, I thought that was weird, so I'm going to write about what another friend told me. He told that I'm "outgoing". I think of myself as outgoing when I go above and beyond. It kind of goes with creativity, it's something I like to do, because it lets me express creativity. My favorite example of this is when the basketball team had practice and couldn't go trick or treating. Being me, I thought "Hey, I'm a cheerleader. I should do something for them." I ended up taking all of the candy (except chocolate of course) that I had gotten on Halloween and splitting it between the players. A lot of them were my friends, so I just thought it was something nice to do.