The First 10 of 100 (Collect 'em all!)

These are the first 10 of the "100 Things about Me" (a meme that has struck through my layer of the blogosphere as of late):

Relationships

1. I believe that one way to fully understand yourself is through marriage. Your partner is a perfect mirror for seeing all the sides of yourself you can’t or won’t acknowledge. The better you can live with this idea, the better your life and marriage will be
2. I believe that being gay, lesbian or transgendered is one of the most beautiful and bravest things you can do with your life.
3. I don’t believe that having children is as important as people make it out to be. In fact, it’s better for everyone if you don’t: environmentally, politically and financially.
4. I am an inveterate flirt. My wife knows this, and doesn’t sweat it because I’m so awful at it that it’s funny. I’ve been told this is part of my charm.
5. 99 percent of the conversations I had with my father when he was alive can be boiled down to five questions: am I working/smoking/seeing someone/going back to school/still a liberal?
6. I am an ACA kid thanks to my mother’s alcoholism.
7. I believe that people who admit they have no creativity or imagination are only half alive, and should have interventions done for them.
8. I am an ardent and angry liberal. I believe that if you send kids off to war, you should have some first-hand experience of watching someone die in battle. I don’t believe spreading freedom includes killing Iraqi children.
9. I believe that we as a nation should endeavor to learn as much about foreign cultures as they do for ours. I speak Thai, Tagalog, Spanish and French semi-fluently, and I do it because I’ve never met someone from abroad who couldn’t at least muster one sentence of perfect English.
10. I am completely non-religious, almost the point of atheism. I can’t believe in any God that someone tells me I should. I believe that God can find me just fine without help from “experts”.