by Charlotte A. Cavatica

Created on: July 26, 2008   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

I'm the kind of person that makes friends easily, but only with those who make the attempt to become my friend. I'm the kind of person that's wary of new people because I trust first and suspect only when I have no other choice, making me particularly susceptible to being taken advantage of by those who don't realize what they're throwing away by doing so. I'm the type of person who's been betrayed enough to know what I'm risking by giving the benefit of the doubt, but does it anyway because the gains typically outweigh the risks. I'm the type of person that believes humanity is inherently good if it could just get out of its own way.

I'm the type of person who had a life-defining moment at 3 years old when I received a round of appluase from all the adults in attendance at a party where I gave up my own carefully collected bucket of shells to another little girl who was throwing a temper tantrum because she wanted the bucket that had my name on it.

I'm the type of person who has spent a lifetime putting other's needs before my own, to the point where I need a therapist's help to learn how to take care of myself as well as I do everyone else. I'm the kind of person who feels guilty about having my mother in an assisted living community following her stroke and then heart attack, despite the fact that I know I can't give her the level of care she needs. I'm the kind of person who is happy that my job allows my husband to stay home with our 2 year old son, but is also jealous of all the small miracles he gets to see that I can only be caught up on after they've happened.

I'm the type of person who knows these next few paragraphs are going to piss a lot of people off, but will write them anyway.

I'm the type of person that loves to point out to conservative, right wing extremeists that Jesus was a liberal. I'm the kind of person that lists their religious views as "Dissentious". I'm the kind of person who was raised Catholic, but then started thinking for myself and realized that the Bible is just a book written by men - politically motivated, power hungry men who saw a threat in women being revered as herbalists, healers and creators of life... and spent 200 years killing them to create the male-dominated society that continues today.

I'm the type of person who is frustrated to the point of exasperation that so many people blindly follow a religion that was taught to them at a time in their lives when Santa was believable. I'm the kind of person that wonders why

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