my apologies as always for my long break from blogging. i may start a new blog more aimed at my life nowadays as an 'adult.' we'll let that word go as far as it should since hopefully i'll never grow up but my aims have changed a lot as to what i would like out of life and what i get to do with the miniscule amount of free time that i do have and maybe that's all worth putting down for now. it may have been worth putting down before now. oh well, again, there's that miniscule amount of free time that gets in the way.
so today's post doesn't cover games, movies, music or anything of the sort. instead it's a realization of a label that i was subconsciously aware of but that has been brought to my attention recently.
i am the fixer. if i were a superhero right now, at this moment, that's the codename they would use.
so what has determined that i am the fixer you say? many things that i'm not going to list. some evidence that i will put down. i never get anything done for myself [i think this is reason # 1 that i am still working on my phd]. don't get me wrong, this isn't some self righteous please help me nonsense, it's just an annoying personality trait that i have. i feel obligated to make sure everyone else's life/job/school/whatever is running appropriately. i don't know why. it's quite detrimental to my own life but again, not complaining, just realization. i draw lines too so it's not that i'm fixing EVERYTHING just more than i should be fixing. i don't want to fix things for my child because i don't want him to end up just like one of the many college students i see today who don't even know how to open a pdf file or send themselves an email. as another undergraduate stated, 'we're the technology generation!' people in general need to be able to do things on their own and to fix their own problems. i need to stop worrying about everyone else's work and get my own stuff done.
realization over. fixer out.
enjoy the silence.
so today's post doesn't cover games, movies, music or anything of the sort. instead it's a realization of a label that i was subconsciously aware of but that has been brought to my attention recently.
i am the fixer. if i were a superhero right now, at this moment, that's the codename they would use.
so what has determined that i am the fixer you say? many things that i'm not going to list. some evidence that i will put down. i never get anything done for myself [i think this is reason # 1 that i am still working on my phd]. don't get me wrong, this isn't some self righteous please help me nonsense, it's just an annoying personality trait that i have. i feel obligated to make sure everyone else's life/job/school/whatever is running appropriately. i don't know why. it's quite detrimental to my own life but again, not complaining, just realization. i draw lines too so it's not that i'm fixing EVERYTHING just more than i should be fixing. i don't want to fix things for my child because i don't want him to end up just like one of the many college students i see today who don't even know how to open a pdf file or send themselves an email. as another undergraduate stated, 'we're the technology generation!' people in general need to be able to do things on their own and to fix their own problems. i need to stop worrying about everyone else's work and get my own stuff done.
realization over. fixer out.
enjoy the silence.
