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Strengths and Weaknesses (MHA)

MHA prompt: "What are your biggest personal strengths? How have those strengths helped you overcome difficult times? What strengths do you recognize in others that you'd like to see in yourself?"

1. Fostering Connections.

I talk to everyone. I get people to talk to each other. This is especially important across cultural issues like race.

Once-upon-a-time I had parties specifically aimed at bringing people together. I learned that food was important and getting people interacting! I used to have them about twice per month on Wednesdays. The regularity helped.

I also had yearly barbeques dedicated to Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech.

In retrospect I could have done much better, but that I was doing it at all at a time that no one else even saw the issue (racism isn't a sexy issue) gives testimony that my effort was worthy of my time and money.

2. Engaged.

Some folks would say that I'm distracted by everything and anything. But my interest in everything gives me a broad platform to stand on. I'm ecclectic when it comes to knowledge and people. I'm no master! But... I can weave these threads into stories or interesting conversations. I just need to do more not less.

3. Overcoming... what...

I cannot impress on you how connections keep me sane nor how once severed they devastate me. My strengths did not help me much unless one considers how I was able to make new connections to help me survive.

4. Happiness.

Other people seem to be happy. Whether it's from oblivion or discipline it doesn't matter. I have failed at self-obliviation. And discipline and I don't get along. It would be nice to be happy.

5. Calm.

I marvel at those who face triumph and adversity calmly. It's like they are a placid lake that even a storm cannot disturb. Oh, to be unruffled.

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