My name is Jarin Satterlee and I am just an average guy who had the amazing opportunity to care for my parents when they needed it most. It was an honor and privilege to help make the last year of their life a little bit easier.
I am the third of four children. Some of my best traits that I received from my parents are my intelligence and compassion. The worst traits I received from them are my temper, laziness and anxiety. I am shy and reserved around strangers, something I got from my mother and I wish I had my father’s ability to be more outgoing and talkative. Like any good Scorpio, I can also be quite manipulative and get what I want.
I was definitely a momma’s boy. No bones about that.
I was always described as being socially more mature than my peers and would often prefer to associate with my peer’s parents or my parent’s friends.
I think of myself as an artist trapped in a scientists body. I have very little actual artistic ability but I would really love to be able to sing or dance or do anything where I create something out of nothing. I do like to write and it seems to be the only artistic ability that I am halfway decent at, even if my English language abilities are mediocre at best.
I too often think before I speak, which may be why writing is an outlet for me. I am able to take more time formulating thoughts in a meaningful way. I have been told that I talk slowly, too slowly for the management world that was my career. I am also far too detailed in my work. I am detailed oriented and like organization when I am working.
When I am not blogging or working or doing anything else productive, I am most comfortable goofing around on the computer. I find that I can spend hours going from one link to another be it on YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo!, etc. I also enjoy a couple of video games on the computer. I am pretty good at Diablo III and World of Warcraft.
While I am a loyal friend but I far too often find that friends come and go in my life. I have very few friends that I have kept in regular contact with and I am not exactly sure why that is. I keep more to myself and I think a big reason for that is self esteem. I am far from perfect and have lots of flaws that maybe one day I will reconcile.
I am a thinker. I have many thoughts that I would like to tell people. I am very opinionated, especially about social and political issues. However, I am not often verbal with those opinions. Some of it has to do with respect for other’s beliefs and some of it has to do with a fear that my opinions will cost me relationships, which I intellectually know is a silly thing but that is a part of what makes me… ME.