Last year, right around Valentine's Day I discovered Mortified! Baltimore. This group gets together to share their most mortifying and embarassing stories about love, family, friends, and just about anything else you can think of. Last Valentine's Day the theme of the night was love, and I had never laughed so hard in all my life. It was so funny, that I just knew I had to go again. Unfortunately, every few months something would come up and I'd miss their engagement.
However, this year at Valentine's time again, I was able to make it work with my schedule and finally see these amazing people again. And again, it was a night full of laughter and some cringing. This year's theme again was love so all of the participants read from letters, or journals or book reports that they had written when they were little about being in love with first boyfriends or girlfriends, about first kisses or just about what they shouldn't be doing at camp.
What blows me away is the fact that these are just regular people that choose to try out and go through this process of sharing their most embarassing stories with the world. I wouldn't even be able to read something I had written now in front of an audience, let alone something as cringe-worthy as a journal entry from 20 years ago. But these people are gutsy and very funny and pretty darn awesome! And maybe by watching them, a little of their gutsiness will rub off on me!
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