be yourself . cheesy ?

so, you know that feeling you get when you first start to date somebody ? you know youre a great person and you want to be perceived as such ... but dont know how to go about it? you dont want to tell your whooooole life story, but you want to seem interesting enough to be liked . you want to seem smart, but not one of those 'well actually' type people . you want to look fashion forward, but not like an idiot who threw on every designer thing in their closet . you want to make cute, witty jokes but wanna cry when it comes out like a joke your granny woulda told . confident but not cocky. sexy but not raunchy. happy, but not giddy. deep, but not boring. you worry constantly when they come by that things may not go perfectly like you had planned . butterflies in your stomach, fluttering the edges of your tummy--tucked in because you dont want your gut to show in that top .


... but if we thrive for these 'mediums' instead of the extremes, we will never be PERFECT . we will just be the warm water, the safe choice, the milk .