Yeah, that’s right. I want to be talented. Is that so wrong? Don’t we all look for something that we’re good at, that we can excel at? Well here’s my biggest problem: I want to be good at a lot of different things and so I overload myself and either burn out and end up watching tv and playing video games or I just get mediocre skills at a whole lot of different things. I’m like Pauly Shore in the move Son in Law (never thought I’d draw that comparison intentionally)…I just keep changing what I’m doing and never get good at one thing. Here’s some of the things I’ve been doing lately: learning how to use webpage making and design software, becoming well-read by going through a lot of books, learning to play the guitar, lifting weights, and of course the constant struggle of trying to live a Christian life and grow into what God wants for me. I have all of these things going and I fear that I’ve spread myself a little thin…all these things on top of school and the demands of a normal social life don’t leave a lot of time in my day. Anyway, I’m not really sure where I intended to go with this information, but it’s been on my mind. I want to do all of these things, but I don’t want either of two things to happen: I don’t want to be a quitter and I don’t want to let any trivial self-centered pursuits to lead me astray from what God wants for me. On to things that I can think about at quarter to two without making my head hurt…
Today was pretty laid back and mediocre. I didn’t really do much that I can remember besides just normal stuff. Greg and I went out so he could check out a keyboard at guitar center and buy some guitar playing supplies (strings and whatnot) and then I went to Best Buy to get a good deal on the collector’s edition dvds of Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. Both are very good movies, although Pulp Fiction gets significantly more attention than Jackie Brown. Pulp Fiction certainly deserves a huge load of praise for numerous reasons that have been covered more in depth than I can delve (I recommend checking out Ebert’s remarks on Pulp Fiction as one of the “great films”), but Jackie Brown has a different kind of appeal as more of a human and less of a stylized story with the closest to romance that I’ve known Tarantino to get. Anyway, no need to detail the merits of each film because they’re both worth seeing, right? Yeah…that’s what I thought.
Well, sorry the night’s post was a little disjointed, boring, unfunny, etc, but that’s the kind of day it was. What can I say? You gotta take the bad with the good when you do a daily blog, so check back tomorrow and hopefully more things will have gone on.
