Resolutions

Everybody – at least everybody I know – pass resolutions from time to time, mainly during the holidays. I do that all the time…you know the ones like: to eat less, to smoke less and so on. I call them my 10 to 10 resolutions. I pass the resolution at 10 in the evening, shortly before I go to bed and get weak latest at 10 the next morning and pretend I never made the resolution.

Finally I made the decision to only pass resolutions where there is at least a small chance to succeed. Which means, I pass almost no resolutions at all. Good thing because you can’t get disappointed in yourself that way :-)!

But when I moved to the US I made one resolution: getting used to bugs! Seriously!! Where I come from we do not have bugs sooo huge! When I visited the US before I had an incident with a huge cockroach . I completely freaked out!

I am not afraid of alligators, snakes or bears! But I have a heart attack when I see one of these monstrous bugs that are common here. Since I moved here I had a couple of incidents with bugs, but fortunately – for me, not the bugs – I was never alone and got rescued heroically every time.

Today I had to face a bug on my own! I stepped barefoot on the monster – accidentally. I think (hope) it was already dead. My guess is it stuck underneath a shoe and fall off on the carpet. The rate of my heartbeat doubled instantly! It took me a while and I had to scrape together all my courage, but finally I did it! I grabbed a paper towel, picked up the beast and threw it in the trash! And not only that! I didn’t take the trash immediately outside. Usually I do that – you never know if these beasts come back to life and hunt you!

So I can proudly announce: I haven’t reached my goal yet….but I got a little bit closer! And – perhaps – next time I see a bug I will not freak out completely 🙂