On the other hand...

[cosmolinguist]

Sometimes it seems like I don't like anything.

Not really. I mean, I'm absolutely no good at specializing in anything. I think even if choosing a major hadn't been a difficult thing for me, it still would've seemed a silly one.

I like people who like things. I love people who get all excited about anime or the Beach Boys or walking between tube stations.

But I don't know if I like anything as much as some of my friends like those things.

I've been known to have more fun reading about a painting or a piece of music than I've had actually looking at the art or listening to the music. What's the point of knowing about stuff if you don't get to enjoy actual stuff?

I don't know if I want to end up the sort of person who thinks reading through dictinoaries is more fun than standing on the stack of dictionaries to reach up to the shelf where the liquor is kept.

Comments

[ivana-duboise.livejournal.com]

Once you get the liquor off the shelf that's when you start reading the dictionary; don't stop until you've finished either the bottle or the book. Passing out and/or vomiting is forbidden. Such an action will result in disqualification.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

[cosmolinguist]

Now that is an excellent idea.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Depends upon what you're reading the dictionary for.

[kalieris.livejournal.com]

Heh. This is me in a nutshell. I don't really have a passion for anything in particular, and I'd rather read than do just about anything else. (But I don't consider that being passionate about it, just obsessive.)

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, somehow reading doesn't count as a passion. I like it, but I think I only do it so much because I can't think of anything else to do.

[skoobwoman.livejournal.com]

I'm with you kalieris. I've always hated having no passions. I didn't so much care what it was for--I just wanted to feel passionate about something. I worried that I read about life instead of living it. But if I could feel passionate about that--I guess that would be okay. No passion equals no motivation equals no achievement. It means I will drift through life until I hit the great waterfall! Like you, Holly, I can't specialize. I like too many things but none of them enough to give up the rest. So I'm good at nothing in particular.

Boy, now I'm really depressed.

[cosmolinguist]

No need to be sorry here! Some time I'll talk about all the crap I know way too much about...