Under Cover

One of my favorite quotes is from "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood: "Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing it, because it doesn't seem like the kind of life I could ever get away with, or deserve. This goes along with another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." Let's see how well I can impersonate an adult today. Ready. Set. And we're off....

On the Level

I was reminded again today of a problem I've had much of my life, that of using the wrong standard by which to judge my own abilities at something. I look at the abilities of others, decide my abilities are not good enough, and get down on myself. The problem is that I look at others who are too far above me at the whatever something I'm working on instead of others who are an appropriate level above me. I may not have expressed that well, but it's my shortcoming to work on, not yours.