Thanks. I guess my self-doubts fall in the gray area where careful means something different than caring. Why does it feel so right to be carefree and yet so wrong to be someone who couldn't care less?
To me being carefree means knowing you'll be all right no matter what tomorrow may bring. Careless is something else.
Careless people break things and people and let others sweep up the mess (there's a 'Gatsby' quote in there somewhere, let me look for it: "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made".)
You're not careless, or at least you've never given any indication that you are.
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I do seem to be pretty bouncy which is always helpful when you tend towards toddler-running-with-scissors-by-edge-of-pool-wearing Mommy's-high-heels behavior.
I guess the other way to look at it is that maybe "being good" is equivalent to "delaying gratification" or trying not to have "eyes to big for my stomach".
Nothing wrong with delaying gratification. Or with giving in to temptation. It depends.
