I’m Having A Bit Of Trouble
It’s September 9th already. Where in the hell does time go? I’m almost a third of the way through the month and I haven’t accomplished a damn thing, at least that’s how it feels.
I’ve certainly thought about doing a lot of things… That’s the problem. I spend too much time thinking and not enough time doing. I suppose thinking is good. Thinking and not accomplishing is better than not thinking and not accomplishing. It would probably be better however if I got in the habit of doing both.
I know this will sound like a bit of a stretch, but part of my problem is I chose to study Political Science in college. Let me explain. It made me too sensitive to how our country is run. The current reality in that area is down right depressing. It’s affecting my emotional outlook. I’m embarrassed to be an American. If I hadn’t studied Political Science during my formative years, I might be a more focused and a happier person. (Or that could just be an excuse.)
That raises the natural question, why did I choose to study Political Science? The answer is simple, I fell in love with a woman that was a Political Science major. There’s no better reason than that, right? It so happens her father was the Dean of the department, so naturally I declared Political Science my major and selected him as my advisor — to increase my chances of winning the favor of his daughter. A brilliant strategy. I did manage to wrangle one Sunday dinner out of the gambit. I suppose it would have been a brilliant strategy, if I had wanted to spend my life in academia. My love interest followed in her father’s footsteps but I didn’t quite have the inclination to do the same, so my plan never quite came to fruition.
What followed the failure of that plan is not all bad, in fact I have to admit, things have worked out pretty damn well over all. (Oddly enough, the person that became the love of my life is pretty damn politically astute, as it turns out.) The only side effect of all this is I probably take political issues a bit more seriously than most voters, and that can have a negative influence on my outlook at times.