There are seventeen unread or partially read books piled next to your bed. And you are browsing on the powells.com website just in case.
You have been told that what is obvious to you is not apparent to everyone. Really? But it is so simple, you declare with dismay.
Your thinking and your style of communication is like a fire hose to everyone else’s garden hose.
You are hearing sounds and smelling smells that no one else hears or smells.
You start writing the paper for school the night before and still get the highest grade in the class. Contrary to the myth that you must be arrogant, you are actually uncomfortable so you hide your grades and start failing classes on purpose.
People much older than you are running the nonprofit where you volunteer and are asking your opinions and putting you in charge. You are appalled at how disorganized they are so you take over.
You are fascinated by, oh, everything, and never want to stop learning.
People who have been on the job much longer than you, resent the fact that you learned the ropes faster and mastered the job in a few weeks. And now you are bored.
You have spent more time waiting for others to catch up than you have spent sleeping.
You had eight (or more) different careers before you were thirty.
People tell you that you care too much, you are too idealistic, too sensitive, and you can’t change the world. Sometimes you believe them but deep in your heart, you know they are wrong.
You took seven years to get through college because you changed your major 4 times. And you added two minors. You would have stayed longer if it wasn’t so darned expensive.
You have painted your living room 12 times in 4 years, and it is still not right.
People tell you how smart you are but you feel like a failure most of the time.
You slept with (and loved) the dictionary when you were a child and you are secretly annoyed that Google, Alexa, Siri, and Whoever are answering your kids’ questions.
People keep telling you to lower your extremely high expectations and you wonder why they are not raising theirs.
You learned to dance and lead the Argentine tango because it was challenging, creative, and intimate, and for the first time in your life others figured out how to follow you.
You see ecru, beige, ivory, and eggshell when everyone else sees white.
You not only know a lot because you research pretty constantly, even in your sleep, but you also have an intuitive capacity that is so particularly accurate at times, it is a little unnerving.
People tell you that you talk too fast, even when you are speaking your third language.
When you read this list you think, isn’t everyone like this?
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To my bloggEEs: Can you add to this list in the comments? How do you know you have a rainforest mind? Thank you for being here and for your love. Loving you back, as always. Knowing you are reading my blog has totally saved me during this pandemic. Welcome to my happy place. Stay safe everyone.
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