Enthusiastic, enthusiastic, enthusiastic.
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Hardworking, authentic and honest.
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Not very concise.
Needing order always.
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View profile →Healthy body and a healthy mind – very simple.
My own biography! Being serious, there’s an Australian novel by Gregory Roberts called Shantaram that I didn’t read through.
The inability to do things for myself.
I haven’t grown up.
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.
Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
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