Life is Not a Standardised Test
Feb. 1st, 2005 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jcfialaSo, a friend of mine *waves* was feeling a little down the other day, watching TV and seeing the beautiful people on it. And, as sometimes happens to us, he started feeling a bit inadequite. Here, after all, are perfectly beautiful people, rich, sexy, having fantastic adventures. Now, admittedly this is TV, and thus fiction, but I'd have to admit that there probably are rich, sexy people out there having fantastic adventures, and I'm not one of them.
In response, I tossed out that cute quote from Tom Lehrer about Mozart. "It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age, he had already been dead for two years." It's a fun quote, and it gets quite a laugh on the album.
But there's a point there too. Life isn't a standardized test. We're not all going for the same goal, and we wouldn't be happy with the same goal even if we went for it. Heck, although I wouldn't mind having some of that beautiful rockstar money, it's become a cliche that in 'Behind the Music' shows there was always a timeperiod where things started to royally suck, usually after they became wildly successful and had too much money. (Even VH1 was making fun of it the other day, and it's their show.)
What you need to do, is figure out what you want and need, and then measure your success as a person by how well you're achieving that. And if you end up where you want and need, iterate. I mean, from my point of view I envy my friend a little - he's closer to a group of people I think are very cool than I am, he seems a lot more creative than I am, and he's certainly better at sticking to writing than I am. But... maybe I'm not not as much of a writer as I thought I was. Besides, he probably sucks at running conventions. :)
Hang in there.
In response, I tossed out that cute quote from Tom Lehrer about Mozart. "It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age, he had already been dead for two years." It's a fun quote, and it gets quite a laugh on the album.
But there's a point there too. Life isn't a standardized test. We're not all going for the same goal, and we wouldn't be happy with the same goal even if we went for it. Heck, although I wouldn't mind having some of that beautiful rockstar money, it's become a cliche that in 'Behind the Music' shows there was always a timeperiod where things started to royally suck, usually after they became wildly successful and had too much money. (Even VH1 was making fun of it the other day, and it's their show.)
What you need to do, is figure out what you want and need, and then measure your success as a person by how well you're achieving that. And if you end up where you want and need, iterate. I mean, from my point of view I envy my friend a little - he's closer to a group of people I think are very cool than I am, he seems a lot more creative than I am, and he's certainly better at sticking to writing than I am. But... maybe I'm not not as much of a writer as I thought I was. Besides, he probably sucks at running conventions. :)
Hang in there.
