What’s your favorite thing about yourself?

I happened to be awake when the clock ticked over to Midnight and this prompt became available. I looked at it briefly, couldn’t think of anything within a few seconds, and then proceeded to ignore it while trying to go to sleep.

Sleeping on it didn’t help.

Reading it again this morning and trying to think about how I perceive myself is not an easy mental exercise. I don’t want to go so far beyond humility and self depreciation that I land in “there’s nothing I like about myself so I can’t pick a favorite” territory, and I don’t want to brag about myself. This is going to sound weird (because of the whole writing blog posts and sharing my mind for the world) but I don’t like being or making myself the center of attention regardless of good or bad. This makes it hard to be self reflecting and pick something I like. I’ve heard that we are our own worst critic, so maybe that explains a bit there.

So, what I did instead was scan through the titles of my blog posts from the last six or seven months. That’s over 200 posts. I picked through a couple to remind myself of things I liked and had stronger thoughts/opinions on (typically the longer posts) and found that I am still completely stuck against a mental block of picking something I could easily declare that is my favorite thing about myself.

So I’m going to just throw something out there. I like puzzles and escape room type games and the like. I like complexity and creativity in games, especially in Magic: The Gathering. If there’s one thing I THINK I could say is my favorite thing about myself, it’s that I like to think I’m clever and/or creative, but I don’t like to talk/brag about my exploits.

This has been a weird post to write.