Rediscovery

With regard to the previous post, I did want to note that I have long been conscious that my intellectualism is a protective barrier.  What would have been most obvious for me to have done is find a job thinking somewhere, so that my weakness became a strength.  I could easily have done this as a lawyer, an engineer, or academic of some sort.  I did in fact start down the path of academia, but even then I could see that in some way I was retreating, and I didn’t like it.

I earn my income now to some extent using my intellect–being intelligent is beneficial just about everywhere–but what is more important is my people skills, which are still at times lumpy, but by and large reasonably good.  This has taken a lot of development on my part.  I more or less consciously chose a career path doing things I was NOT congenitally suited for.  I don’t like the idea of having weaknesses, even though I continue to have many.

This all is my long way of saying I likely repeat myself.  I am at times like that old joke about the two men drinking at a bar, discovering they have an amazing amount in common, the punchline to which is “Oh, that’s the O’Malley brothers.  They’ve been drinking again.”

I “rediscover” things about myself and the world.  This is an interesting process, the most important part of which is, I think, seeing the old in slightly new ways.  We evolve and change every day, and what you thought you saw once and finally many years ago can always shine again in new ways.

My most personal stuff I write in a non-NSA compliant format–with pen and paper–but it doesn’t seem too inappropriate to lapse on occasion into the “Daily Me” mode which is the default for so many bloggers.