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Decades long obsessions yields mixed results. But I feel alive, focused and purposeful.
I am a high-functioning introvert. You may or may not notice it when you meet me. Because I can be quite excitable, and my quiet center is often masked.
Nonetheless, I require substantial alone time to collect my thoughts, reflect, daydream. My relationship with the world is twofold: engage and retreat.
From Imagination To Reality
I have many, many ideas of varying quality. Because I only act on a relatively small number of them, I can come across as a dreamer — a Walter Mitty who doesn’t act on his ideas. But that’s just not so. It’s always easy, at least for me, to come up with many more ideas and plans and concepts than a single person can ever hope to achieve.
One must choose. Carefully. Life is not an unlimited resource. Nor is time.
And yet, one must not fear wasting time on mistakes and missteps. These are inevitable, a natural and unavoidable consequence of trying things. Sometimes you’ll go down blind alleys. Sometimes you’ll need to correct course. Sometimes, you’ll need to abandon a particular idea completely.
But once I hook onto something…watch out!
