I Am a Success - Project 2 - This Is Me
If there were one word which summed me up best that word would be: confusion. My life has been a series of small inexplicable confused episodes combining into one big confused life. First I do this, then I do that. AT any point in my life, I never have less than 10 hobboes. And they all change completely every year into different hobbies.
It all started in school. It seemed I had no special talents, I was just average at everything. This turned into a boon because I didn't have to spend hours practising one type of activity such as cricket or tennis. Imagine how boring Michael Federer's or Tiger Woods childhoods were. Instead I spent my time doing everything. Badly. But fun. So I finished school in just as bad a situation. No good at anything.
One thing my mother insisted on is a university education. She said after that I could do whatever I wanted. Of course that seemed like a bad idea to me. Four years doing exactly the same thing was somethinf I couldn't even imagine. And I have to say, it was tough. But my mother was my favourite person in the world, until my brother took over that title, so I did it. And I announced to the world I was an engineer.
Luckily I didn't have to look for a job because Eskom had stupidly paid for my education and expected me to work for them. After seven years they finally got rid of me. They never recovered, and it's beginning to look like they will collapse and take the entire country with them. I will consider that my finest achievement.
I have often thought what an advantage it would have been if I had not been average at everything. If it turned out that, for example, I was bad at everything except, say, bird watching. Then life would have been so easy. I would spend all day, every day, bird watching. You never want to do the things you're bad at. I've even often wished I was handicapped, for examplem if I had no legs or arms, the range of things I could do would be much restricted. I would finally be able to concentrate on doing only one thing and get really good at it. Maybe become the world's best and most patient bird watcher.
ANyway, if any of you are young and have a similar problem, i.e. you're not really bad at anything, and not good at anything, it seems there is hope. You see, over the years, there does seem to be one thing that I consistently applied myself to. And all the time I spent doing that seems to have added up into some sort of talent. Yes, it seems I am finally better than average at something. Something important. And that something I call alcohol management. Yes, after literally years of practice, I can drink and drink and drink. Then I can slow the getting drunk process itself down. And later I can fully recover from any hangover in half an hour or less. Amazing, I know, but true.
So from the confusion something good has emerged. And for any of you with the same problem, look forward to your talent finally emerging from your confused life. Look forward to the day when you too can say, "I have achieved. I am a success."
It all started in school. It seemed I had no special talents, I was just average at everything. This turned into a boon because I didn't have to spend hours practising one type of activity such as cricket or tennis. Imagine how boring Michael Federer's or Tiger Woods childhoods were. Instead I spent my time doing everything. Badly. But fun. So I finished school in just as bad a situation. No good at anything.
One thing my mother insisted on is a university education. She said after that I could do whatever I wanted. Of course that seemed like a bad idea to me. Four years doing exactly the same thing was somethinf I couldn't even imagine. And I have to say, it was tough. But my mother was my favourite person in the world, until my brother took over that title, so I did it. And I announced to the world I was an engineer.
Luckily I didn't have to look for a job because Eskom had stupidly paid for my education and expected me to work for them. After seven years they finally got rid of me. They never recovered, and it's beginning to look like they will collapse and take the entire country with them. I will consider that my finest achievement.
I have often thought what an advantage it would have been if I had not been average at everything. If it turned out that, for example, I was bad at everything except, say, bird watching. Then life would have been so easy. I would spend all day, every day, bird watching. You never want to do the things you're bad at. I've even often wished I was handicapped, for examplem if I had no legs or arms, the range of things I could do would be much restricted. I would finally be able to concentrate on doing only one thing and get really good at it. Maybe become the world's best and most patient bird watcher.
ANyway, if any of you are young and have a similar problem, i.e. you're not really bad at anything, and not good at anything, it seems there is hope. You see, over the years, there does seem to be one thing that I consistently applied myself to. And all the time I spent doing that seems to have added up into some sort of talent. Yes, it seems I am finally better than average at something. Something important. And that something I call alcohol management. Yes, after literally years of practice, I can drink and drink and drink. Then I can slow the getting drunk process itself down. And later I can fully recover from any hangover in half an hour or less. Amazing, I know, but true.
So from the confusion something good has emerged. And for any of you with the same problem, look forward to your talent finally emerging from your confused life. Look forward to the day when you too can say, "I have achieved. I am a success."
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