Sunday, June 13, 2010

Summer Rain

When it rains it pours, as they say. 

These past few weeks have been strange and difficult in ways I had not predicted.  Again my family has continued issues, but hopefully resolution is coming.  In a way our lives will always had a scar but in my experience scars show you have actually had experiences and gotten to feel life a little bit.  And they serve as a reminder that life is not always kind. 

I am a bartender/cook and an IT assistant.  Two jobs.  Two kind of crappy jobs. Steps is how I see them.  Merely rungs on a ladder.  I owe a lot of money and no task is truly below me.  Trouble is I ought to be putting my time in elsewhere.  I ought to be picking out grad schools.  I ought to be building a portfolio or working in a lab or writing my own research.  Not worrying about next months rent. 

So at least within reason, I am going to keep working.  But the struggle is mental.  I am struck repeatedly each day with the gravity of my family's flaws and the inadequacies that I may possess. 

I feel like I am smart enough to do science... but my skill is more in design.  I need to show myself and other people that that is where my skill is.  I know art, architecture, and design is something I can do... I just need to get out and DO it

Mental note: Anish Kapoor

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