Of being selfless, and being selfish

I really tried everybody. I really tried to come up with a new response to this prompt, something other than what I said last year. But on my first and only attempt, I ended up starting to write about something I had already written about before. I’m not talking about the answer that I had to last year’s prompt; I’m talking about something completely different answer wise, but it corresponded to another blog post. I did a while back.

God bless WordPress for coming up with 365 different “daily prompts“. But when you’ve been writing every day for well over a year, you’re going to end up encountering the “recycled prompts“. Sometimes I can come up with something new to say about them. Sometimes I end up just reposting my old response.

But today, I decided to do something different. At the suggestion of My Gen X Playlist – a blog you should really check out – I decided to pull a prompt from this website.

But before I get into my answer to this new prompt, I am embedding my response to today’s WordPress prompt from last year, for those were curious…

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My work-around to using a new prompt, but sticking with WordPress’s daily prompt tag

What would you not buy for yourself, but would like to receive as a present?

Over the last few years, I’ve become one of those people who’s not good at spending money on myself. It’s not that I don’t like to spend money, but rather that I tend to put my own wants, or owner needs, last. I’m not sure if this is a guy thing or exclusively a dad thing. No doubt I saw this. behavior exhibited by my dad growing up, and it just sort of blossomed in my DNA.

I’ve never been one to buy personal items for myself like jewelry or even. To be honest, I never wear them much at all, if ever. I’m just not a big jewelry guy. And my sense of smell is so bad that I would always be afraid that of putting on way too much cologne in the wrong places. but I think if someone were to buy them for me, particularly a woman, I would probably wear them or at least give them a try.

Things that I’m not very good at, but trying to get better about:

treating myself to things that I simply want. Whether that’s a box of baseball cards, or tickets to AutoRama to go see the Batmobile in person, or even planning a road trip strictly to go see a baseball game at a different major-league stadium.

I know there’s a lot of people who would never plan a trip exclusively for themselves, or attend the live events alone. But the truth is, I’ve come to realize that I miss too many things in life if I wait for somebody else to come along with me .

I’ve been toying with the idea of making a “ambitious for me” 3 City road trip to see Major league baseball games at three different stadiums this summer But ideas will only get you so far without a plan to make them happen. And plans are no good without any action taking place.

What is something you would not buy for yourself, but would like to receive as a present?

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