Monoblogue

Given how difficult it can be to encapsulate any kind of  reality in a concise statement and how rarely generalities are relevant in one’s life, I don’t usually look to gain or try to impart any pieces of advice . Most don’t deeply understand others lives and I understand my own even less than them.  Despite this, I’ve heard my share of truisms and its fortunate that I have because one that I heard recently gave me perspective on the direction I would like my life to be heading towards.

Becoming an adult and having to go to work every day really, really terrifies me. (I’m legally already an adult I guess, but whatever). I’m not the hardest worker in the world to begin with, so spending years on a career seemed like torture. Something that I heard often and seemed relevant was “Do what you love, and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.”, but I had no idea how to implement it in my life. For the most part I love watching movies and sleeping during the daytime, I would think to myself, but there’s not a large market for that skill set. The few jobs that I had stressed me out and didn’t ignite the kind of interest needed to commit to anything. I couldn’t figure out what I loved to do, so it seemed like I would be working a lot of days in my life.

The piece of advice that I heard and would like to share is complementary to the one mentioned earlier and a solution to my problem. “Find something you are good at and others see as difficult,” was the secret to success for David Politzer, a Nobel laureate who was visiting my high school. This probably isn’t earth shattering for most people, but for somebody who has failed in multiple jobs/internships it was very liberating. What I had failed at would never be natural to me and its okay for me to move on to new things. What is, is natural and one day I’ll find what I’m good at and never have to work a day in my life.