October

Tomorrow is the first day of October. Cold weather and early morning darkness. I can feel my joints stiffen. October puts me in an introspective mood, which means I spend my evenings blogging and listening to Sigur Rós. It’s hard to be happy in October, but easy to be productive.

Relief

I used to think that determination was a valid substitute for talent. I thought that even though I had no aptitude for drawing I could still paint beautiful pictures if I put in enough time and effort. I’ll never know if I was right though, because I quickly found that forcing myself to do something I’m not good at was infuriating.

Sometimes in life (in fact, usually) you have to do things that you don’t want to do, or things that you aren’t good at. Don’t punish yourself with adding more of these things to your life. If you find something you like, do that instead.

I like writing.