Are You Anyone’s Favorite Person?
This New Years I’m taking an idea from a YouTube video by Miranda July “Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody?” It has some timely thoughts for 2012 that may just possibly change your life. Check it out (but first finish reading my blog.)
Are you the favorite person of anybody?
Say what?
Are you anyone’s favorite person?
Uh, no.
How sure are you of that? Very sure? Confident? You think so?
Wait a minute. Yes I am. My sister. I’m my sister’s favorite person.
You sure of that?
I smile broadly. Yes. I’m sure. That’s what sisters are for. You can’t mistake favorite person-ness in sisters. We shared a room for years. We talk for hours about everything. We’re going to share a home when we’re old. And my husband. I’m his favorite person. Forty years and counting. He watches for me so he can share his adventures and his stories. We have each others back, Till death do us part and all that. And Mitzi, the young woman who worked for me for nearly a decade. For all those years I was her favorite person except for her father, and now he’s passed and she’s moved on, but the memories are there. Definitely her favorite person.
How can you be so sure about these guys?
Because…because…because they’re my favorite person right back. And my sister Laura because she’s so gentle and giving. And my nephews because they’re so strong under adversity. And my children because–wait there’s more….
I know I’m their favorite person because I put myself out there. And if I’m not #1 at the moment I’m at least #2, or maybe #3. I’ve definitely been on somebody’s top 10 during the last decade. Anyway, who cares if favorite-ness doesn’t last forever? What matters is that I measured up at the time.
It feels really good to know that I make a difference. Isn’t that the point of life? Something we can all agree on?
In the probability that I AM someone’s Favorite Person, here’s what I’ve learned from it :
- Be sincere.
- Be of service.
- Be available.
- Reciprocate. Give back.
- Love without judging.
- Laugh without reason.
- If something needs fixing, fix yourself first.
- Put your best self forward consistently
- Apologize and mean it.
- Realize that you have the best half of the friendship.
How about you? Are you anyone’s favorite person?