That will be the name of my autobiography.
Except I'm too passive to write it.
A short list of my personality flaws:
- Bias towards over-analysis
- Dislike of conflict
- Tendency to be lazy
- Prone to be inconsistent
- Can be self-indulgent
- Anti-institutional to a fault
- Decidedly undisciplined
- Crippling fear of failure
- Don't have an "off" switch
- In certain circumstances, cruel
- Awfully self-critical
- Incurable snob
- Either shy or obnoxious
- Sometimes both
- Emotionally distant
- Sometimes needy
- Overtly pedantic
I'm sure my wife and family could add a few others.
What's the point of listing all these? I don't know. I guess it's an effort to look at myself honestly. In another way, it translates into a list of goals. I want to be better about these things.
Yesterday I turned 29. Not very exciting. Last year I turned 28 on the 28th. I kept waiting for something to happen. I even waited until the exact time of day that I was born. It passed without incident; I think I was watching TV.
I didn't expect anything to happen on this birthday, and nothing did.
Are you serious? I turned 32 on the 27th!
Posted by: karl | March 01, 2006 at 10:43 PM
When I turned 31, that was a big deal to me. 29? I haven't that foggiest.
Posted by: karl | March 01, 2006 at 10:44 PM
I have no idea why I love this particular entry so much. Perhaps the sheer audacity of telling us all what a goob you are? Or it could be that it has inspired (or is it de-spired?) me to consider my own long list of shortcomings.
But I liked it. A lot. Thanks!
Posted by: Jeff Noble | March 02, 2006 at 08:27 PM
OK... I finally sucked it up and did it..
http://journeyguy.typepad.com/notes_from_the_trail/2006/03/a_little_selffl.html
Posted by: Jeff Noble | April 01, 2006 at 09:34 AM