These past several months I've been trying hard to work on being intentional about things - particularly how I interact with people. I believe I've been making progress with interacting the way God wants me to interact. It's definitely a difficult thing for me. But recently I've been beginning to see that maybe I've been thinking on this too hard. I've been finding that I'm not my generally energetic and silly self so much when I'm analyzing almost all of what I say, and how that may have come across to another - or what another had said to me. I've been thinking on this, and thinking on how people seem to gravitate towards me more when I am someone who seems to want to talk to and spend time with them. Makes sense, right? I feel more aloof when I analyze, or dare I say over-analyze. I'm thinking now that God is telling me that I don't need to burden myself so much with all of this. He wants me to be who He created me to be. He loves me regardless of all my shortcomings and flaws and failures. He lives in me therefore I am growing and learning in the meantime (which is absolutely true!). I need to bring myself back. I've also had two friends of mine tell me recently that they like me when I'm energetic and silly. It brightens their day :-). And that brightens mine <3.