Monday Mission 3.27

I am still giving a lot of thought to the future of the Monday Mission. While I've targeted this fall for its retirement, I find myself wondering if I won't take it down sooner.

Maybe I just need a break for a while. I've been at it a long, long time now. Is meme author burn-out possible?

I may be recruiting some guess Missionaries for a few weeks and give myself a summer hiatus. Part of me hates to do that, I kinda want to be able to say I came up with the MM for so many weeks in a row. But that wouldn't be accurate since I've already used other folks' questions before.

I dunno, really.

If you wind up getting BCC bulk e-mail from me inviting you to author a future MM, you will know why. If you don't get one, don't be offended, most likely I will be picking long-time Missionaries or those that participate regularly. Or I may not go that route at all. Who knows. Does anyone even read these introductions anymore?

PromoGuy's Monday Mission 3.27

1. A theme you may notice in the MM more often than others is "the road not taken." It fascinates me to no end the way one single decision can change the course of one's life. To think, if I hadn't gone there that day I'd never met her, or if I had only waited for the phone call, or I am so glad I didn't get on that plane that day. Can you think of one single decision you made that changed the course of your life. A decision where if you had done something else, everything would be different now?

2. Or maybe you think "the fates" have it all planned out for us. Do you think every life has a pre-determined course, that we will wind up at point X regardless of the decisions we make?

3. This train of thought leads, of course, to relationships. I personally do not believe in "soul mates," but many do. I can't deny that some people are just right for each other. However, there are plenty of other relationships that crash and burn because it is not a good fit. Do you think that it is that left up to us and random chance to decide who we are with? Are we are guided to the person we were meant to be with or could you be with the wrong person while "the one" is still somewhere out there?

4. At the 4th of July parade, I saw this fella with a HUGE beer belly. That right there is enough to make me swear off beer! I am not a beer drinker. I've never liked the flavor. As a college kid I drank my share, but I had to learn to tolerate the flavor, and only could if the beer was icy cold. It was never refreshing, it was always a means to an end. It used to be fun, or what I thought was fun then. Things have changed a lot, and as I've aged my tolerance has lowered and it doesn't take much to make me drunk, so I just avoid it. Do you like to drink and get drunk? When was the last time you were drunk or hung over? What was the occasion? How did it feel at the time? How did it feel the next day?

5. On the same topic, have you ever done anything you regret while "under the influence?" What happened? Do you remember it or did you have to be told?

6. I am guessing many out there won't have answers to the above two questions. I wish I could say the same, but I thought it was "cool" to drink and do all those things because all of my so-called "friends" were doing them too. Were you/are you able to resist peer pressure in school/college? How? If not, what did you do that you wish you hadn't?

7. What things are better left unsaid?

BONUS: Isn't this world a crazy place?

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