-They’re asking you a question
-Oh, right… Uhm, do you remember what they asked?
-You’re hopeless.
-I know… So are you going to tell me?
-They want you to reveal something about yourself.
-Like what?
-How am I supposed to know, make something up.
-You know you’re a lot of help.
-I try.
“Hello. My name is Matt Scott. “
–That was very revealing.
-Shut up, I’m trying.
-Not succeeding…
“I grew up in a small town, the kind of town where everybody knew your secrets, and gossip was the major form of entertainment.”
–That’s getting there. Talk about yourself though not the town. You’ll put them to sleep
-You know you’re awfully critical for someone that isn’t helping.
-….
“Seeing how everybody knew everybody, the entire town had opinions on each and every resident, myself included. Somehow everybody starting thinking that I am destined for great things, and started dreaming things for me that I myself never dared of dreaming for myself. If you ask the people from my village (because we don’t have enough people to actually be classified as a town) they would tell you that I have the ability to cure cancer, end world hunger, and establish world peace if only I had the mind for it. You can imagine the affect this has had on me. Most people have just the expectations of their parents and close family members or friends resting on their shoulders, I have an entire village. Like Atlas, I fear I will buckle under the enormous weight, letting a village’s worth of expectancy crumble. To disappoint those who lost their own dreams, and found them again in me was to accept the fact that dreams can never come true, and that isn’t a possibility.”
-Wow, that’s more like it.
-Thanks
“There’s more to me than just expectations though. I mean, in the end I’m just another stupid human.”
–Well at least you got one thing right.
-No one is asking you.
“But the end doesn’t matter. It’s what you do with the time you have that counts, and I plan on making every second count. I may have started off as a one man wolf pack, but I plan on ending as part of something bigger.”
-Did you really just make a “Hangover” reference?
-Yes, yes I did.
-Nice.
“The thing that I believe makes me different from most people is the manner in which I think.”
-If people knew how you thought they’d think you’re crazy.
-Well thank God they can’t hear this conversation
“I’ve found that the great majority of people think along the same lines. That is, they see a problem, and they look for the obvious answer. I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with this, in fact I sometimes feel as if it’s the better way to think. I have the phenomenal ability to overcomplicate everything. But occasionally this helps me arrive at a better solution in the end, even though it’s a very unclear route how I arrived there.”
-You’re losing them again, stop bragging.
-I’m not bragging, it’s an observation.
“What is most important to me though are my values. If I didn’t have those I’d be nobody. It these little things that make up who and what I am. They are the pieces that make up the puzzle of Matt Scott. I won’t go into details, because we’ll be here all day. But here are a few, take from them what you want: You can’t let other people tell you who to be, live for yourself so that in the end the only person responsible for your mistakes is you. Don’t let people get you down, if you let the bad make an impact, you won’t notice the good. And have fun, you only live once, so don’t let embarrassment or fear stand in the way of what you want to do.”
-Do you think that’s revealing enough for them?
-I think that’ll do. Bravo.