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Test Me
I’m going to say it: my college degree is useless for my life. Even when I worked in accounting I didn’t need my degree. I needed experience. When I was at community college I took philosophy and history and business courses and swimming and physics. I learned so much at community college. My world view changed not just because I went to multiple schools in multiple states, but because I was exposed to so much. Then I went through the upper division part — business school. I think I spent that time learning more about who I am, things I should have learned in regular school, than I did learning…
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On Mattering
We all swim in the same sea of people wanting to matter, voices wanting to be heard, and an endless search for validation. Without this community of people that believe in you, even if it’s just a little bit, it’s easy to fall into depressed feelings. Then there’s the other side – what if you have this big community but you feel alone? Both sides can be difficult, and social media makes both sides easy to find – emptiness and fulfillment. If you sign into social media you can see people with SO many followers. It’s hard to look at the numbers and know exactly how they got there. Was…
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Zombie Days
Some days suck. Writing doesn’t flow, thinking doesn’t flow, existing doesn’t flow. Those days are brutal. Those days are the days you HAVE TO have a win – and when productivity is refusing to be anything but constipated and annoying, you just have to figure out one thing you can do. Why do I force it? Because bad days prelude to bad weeks. Bad weeks prelude bad months. If you don’t, at some point, just say “I’m doing this, the end,” then you might never do it again, or by the time you do you’ve wasted so much time you have to scrap what you were doing. So here I…