Me, Myself, and You

There are so many things to do in this world of ours - go to school, washg dishes, make mudpies, walk the dog - that I often despair that my expected lifespan won't be long enough to do even half of what I think I want to do - build a subterranean house, finish my 4-legged costume, and visit the flattest place on earth. Some think it random - create a 'pi'-shaped baking pan, build a diorama-scene from "The Last Unicorn" - but it would make perfect sense if you gave me an hour or so to explain it. The more I think about it - hang-glide, teach English in Japan, scuba dive off the coast of Florida - the more things I come up with. I almost consider it a talent - mash Poke'mon, Fable, and WOW together in a game, customize a chess-set to hold pictures in each piece, learn to make perogies from scratch - this tendency of mine to spawn ideas then roll with them - uphill, downhill, sideways, loop-da-loop, gravel, sub-atomic fusion - but it has one annoying drawback with my easy-going nature.

"Paralysis by analysis", a certain teacher told my class, but the moment I heard it I knew that I resembled that remark. For example, usually when you take a test there are only 2-3 ways to solve or answer a problem (depending on the subject), but if you've gone to class you know what the teachers' preferred method would be. Not a problem for me - usually - but if I don't know the teachers' preference, or I notice a certain phrase that piques my interest (typos will always do that) I go crazy over it. I'll pull it this way, that way, all out of proportions, spending more time contemplating the asking of the question than actually solving the question. Which means that when I finally arrive upon an answer that it satisfactory to me, it usually considered "overthought" and (most importantly) "wrong" by the grader. In essence, shoot-for-the-moon thinking is great, unless all your trying to hit is a target 40 feet away from you.

Complaints aside, I've already accepted my mental state and am overall quite content with it (though I'm still have plenty of room for development when it comes to DISCIPLINE *glares at herself in the mirror*). But I still find myself with copious concepts and oodles of interesting things to do/make/describe/etc., and rarely enough time, resources, and willpower to do them all. Which is where "you" - the internet, the great void, the dump-truck - come in, I suppose.

Expectations notwithstanding, I'll try using this space to vent my more impractical ideas - things that fall outside of my ken, so to speak. *shrugs* Take from it what you will, consider it a "free" pile of metanoic mumblings and 'Eureka!'s.

I certainly will.