Thursday, November 22, 2007

keeping things in perspective

so i reached a milestone birthday a few months ago and have had varying degrees of panicky, "what have i done with my life?" moments all year. those moments often come when i meet or read about someone who has accomplished a startling degree of success and just happens to be my age or younger. when i was 25, i was pretty successful for my age, and anyone more successful was just lucky/born with it/better connected/whathaveyou. but i seem to be stuck at the same level of accomplishment, and check out all that this guy has done:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West

however....

a) he did have a whopping 2-day head start on me

and

b) it could be worse:

http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2007/11/fugsana-baiul.html

so nice of her to help me with that.

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