I'm pretty content. I think it would be a bit egotistical to think of myself as awesome, but I'm happy with everything right now.
That's me too. But then I remind myself that bipolar disorder is associated with high intelligence and abundant creativity, and, even as I'm fighting not to step in front of the train, I remember how awesome I am in my misery. So yes, I am awesome, and here are the reasons why: -I am very good at my job. -I have excellent fashion sense. -I'm super-duper smart. -I am a very talented artist. -I have a great sense of humor. -I look good in any and all hats. -I can enjoy almost any situation just a little bit, if only for the sake of novelty, e.g. getting an arterial blood-draw in the ICU (as opposed to blood drawn from the vein) is incredibly painful, but it left a killer bruise from the palm of my hand to my elbow! It was a thing of beauty! -I have gorgeous hair. -I have awesome tattoos. -I'm pretty hot. -I'm well-read. -I get physics jokes. -I play the cello. -I bake really good cookies. -I can bike 25 miles and not get tired. -I can recognize any episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation after watching only a few seconds. -I had a really rough childhood, which I know does not make me inherently awesomer than people who had it easy, but since I came through it all awesomely, it makes me awesome. -I can put my feet behind my head in yoga class. -I know all the words to all the songs by David Bowie and all the songs from The Sound of Music. -I stayed up for 7 days straight once -- granted I was manic, but it was pretty awesome. -I am American and can name all the actors who played The Doctor in order, and could do so before NuWho. -I drew an awesome picture of Carl Sagan. Awesome.
Since "Groovy" was not an option, I chose "Awesome." For eight of the same reasons as tsq. I'll let you figure out which.
"How are you?" is a question nobody really wants to hear the answer to so we get programmed to say "I'm fine." I say "I'm awesome! " and I do the techman too
Heh, true - I've intentionally been answering either 'Shit, you?' or making up a little depressing story to get a reaction. My mate Scotty questioned it, and I said the same as your quote. It's a great conversation killer when I'm not in a talking mood.
My personality is proactive when I'm strong, and reactive when I'm weak. When I'm strong, you'll get a "hell yeah, now let's cure cancer and change the laws of fucking physics!", but when I'm weak, my environment shapes my attitude, and you get more of a "why am I even here? what's the point of any of this same old shit, different day?" So my answer is "meh", since my personality goes extreme both ways. J.