Two words that describe pretty much every aspect of my life.
I’m a twenty-something college grad trying to sift through my ambitions and aspirations and justify and balance them against my fears, insecurities and practical nature. Like most people, I constantly fight to walk the line between the different facets of my personality, all the while wondering which one is my “true self”.
I don’t consider myself to be particularly good at anything and consequently am still searching for my “talent” in life. I’m a registered independant. I don’t think God and religion are at odds. I still use two spaces between sentances even though it’s now acceptable to only use one.
I’m a work in progress and probably always will be.
A million thanks for your comment on One-Minute Book Reviews, and for the blogroll listing! (I accidentally deleted my blogroll and have spent hours trying to get it back … soon, I hope.)
One reason I can review so many books is that my blog doesn’t just review new books but also vintage titles (anywhere from a couple of years to a couple hundred years old). And I was the book critic for The (Cleveland) Plain Dealeer for 11 years and the book columnist for Glamour for 3, so I’d read a lot of those books already. I also do a lot of short books, such as a children’s pictue book (about 32 pages) every Saturday. And working for a newspaper also makes you a really fast writer. I once had to write and transmit a report on a National Book Awards ceremony with 20 minutes after it ended!
Even so, it can be exhausting at times to post as often as I do. So it’s really heartening to get comments like yours, and I appreciate it more than I can say.
Is the loneliness of a middle-distance runner different from the classic The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner? (Is it the Steve Prefontaine movie? If so, I saw it and liked it, but my memories are fuzzy.)
I found it sort of unnerving how this sentence described me so well:
“I don’t consider myself to be particularly good at anything and consequently am still searching for my “talent” in life.”
At school they had an ‘open mic’ night, where anyone could come up on stage and show the audience any sort of unique talent they had. I was excited to be a part of this, until I realized that I had nothing to show that would be even the least bit interesting.
Unless my knowledge of technology and useless Internet memes could somehow be translated into a form of dance or perhaps a stand-up routine, then I’m afraid I’m audience-bound.
was your page photo (the road and mountains) taken in utah? it looks so close to a stretch i once drove that was lined with black-eyed susans for miles.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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I don’t consider myself to be particularly good at anything and consequently am still searching for my “talent” in life. I’m a registered independant. I don’t think God and religion are at odds.
Wow! All of those describe me right now perfectly. :D