Category: Chat

Write a letter to your 100-year-old self.

Looks like you made it.

It is a blessing to be healthy and wise. I am glad you can say the Lord has saved you from all your troubles.

Continue to praise the Lord and live right.

Again, health is wealth, as you well know.

Where would you go on a shopping spree?

I like a good department store with high-end items, a variety of goods and where there are sales. I like luxury and quality but if I can get it for an excellent price that is the best.

My advice is to look for the sales. Do some window shopping. Get their newsletter or check out their website, and when the time is right and the store has a great sale , go for it.

What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

My name is somewhat controversial for some people, but my middle names work well with the first name.

Esther is the first middle name. It is found in the Bible as the hero or heroine of faith who saved her people from genocide. In Hebrew, it is given the value or meaning to hide. As Esther’s identity was hidden from the king , she hid her people from certain death. In Persian history, it is taken from the goddess Istar, meaning Star.

Maureen is the second name. It is of Irish descent, in the Gaelic, it is spelled and it is a diminutive of the name Mary.

As mentioned in early entries, my name is Jemima, which means dawn or handsome as the day.

Putting all three names together and using the first initials of my names,  my parents came up with my pet name as Jem.

Jemima, Esther, Maureen.  JEM.

I think that was really cool.

What is the last thing you learned?

I want things now. I understand that life doesn’t work like that.

I am learning in my life journey not to look at others and what they have. That life they live does not belong to me. It may look greener, but it really isn’t if I look closer.

Waiting is hard to do, but I know my time will come where I, too, will be blessed.

My new way of thinking is to ensure that as I wait, I need to enjoy the pause.

Don’t be impatient. Everything will work out just fine.

Trust and wait.

What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.

Really, my age is no one’s business but my own. Would knowing my age make you like me better? If I am older than you and look great, you envy me, which turns to hatred because of all the gossip you spread. If I am younger than you, there is still gossip. There is no comparison between us.

Society is fixated on numbers on how old someone is.

For example: A man is in a car accident, and the news report says a thirty year old man is injured. What is the point? Does the accident get more value as his age goes up or down?

I hate ageism. Everyone must be put in a category and labeled. Once we are labeled, we are given a character we have to live up to or down to. We must gather all those in our same category and be the same. There is no mixing. There is no change. There is nothing unique.

I am not ashamed of my age, I just would like some privacy.

Can that be respected?

How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?

It hurts at the beginning when I fail. I get upset. I get angry with myself and with others connected to the problem. Suspicion runs high. I feel the need to talk it out to maybe even justify my actions.

Then I take a step back and realise this can work for me if I see it in a new light.

It is a setback, but it can in the future be a setup for my good if I learn from it.

It does not define me. I am not a failure, but I am human, and things happen.