I spent way too much time in my young life trying to keep up with trends, be cool and say and do what I thought other people wanted me to say and do. I worked so hard at it I fooled myself into thinking it was important.
I'm glad that's over! But I'm not going to waste more precious time regretting it. Youth is like that and I was young.
Middle age has given me permission to be myself. I have embraced my inner nerd.
How cool are you?
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Hahamongna Watershed Park Advisory Committee meets tonight at 6pm, La Casita Del Arroyo
177 S. Arroyo Blvd.
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So true.
Middle age also allowed to accept the fact that I am far from perfect and hardly ever get there. As soon as I realized it, other peoples' not-perfectness became "just fine".
You are not in the box. Even in metaphoric one.
This photo almost has a prison cell block look to it. Dare to be different.
Irina, I still struggle with that one. I'm fine with other peoples' not-perfectness (it's the best thing about them) but I can be hard on myself, even though I have no idea what "perfect" is for me.
Gotta dare, Steven, we've got no choice.
You got the right angle on this one.
Interesting photo. I think your artistic sensibilities and talents make you very cool.
There's nothing nerdy about this, it should be in an art exhibition - such an interesting mix of textures, colors and angles, well spotted. Is that really your reflection? It looks as though you're looking wistfully out of that small (prison) window.
Research is showing that older people are happier - we can finally be ourselves.
My theory is that a person who loiters on a parking lot stairway for twenty minutes taking pictures of her own reflection in some random window might be--might just be--a nerd.
Have camera, will travel...even in stairwells. I like the photo!
Within the picture there are lines that don't meet, others a bit askew, a triangle and a couple circles. Nothing rigid about it. May even be a bit concentric, taking us to the middle, showing us the artist within.
The notion of perfection is so subjective, circumstantial even, that I figure it may be self-defeating to have it as a goal. I try instead for excellence, doing the best I can. I end up with happier results, even in my failures. But if I felt compelled to be perfect, I may not even start at all. (P.S., I am not a surgeon. Aren't you glad?)
I wuv you my cube headed friend!
xx
V
you've managed to make that god-awful parking lot look great. Job well done.
I'd much rather see this cool photo of you in the Macy's parking lot than the print ads for Macy's (is it me or do they seem to be having a new sale every other day?). And I'll happily join your nerd club.
Cool perspective!
Thank you all for your lovely comments today. (And Steve, I'd rather park in that lot than at the Paseo any day!) I haven't seen the ads, Katie, but I believe you. I say it's the economy.
I like the idea of a nerd club. Where shall we meet?
Can I join too?
Dina, you're in.
The nerd club should definitely meet somewhere on the Caltech campus - the mecca of nerdhood.
And I might not be cool, but I am happy.
Happy is cool.
Until Dina can get to town we'll have to meet online. But yeah, Caltech is nerd mecca.
The nerds get all the best stuff, now that I think about it.
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I like
Thanks, PA.
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