I made the mistake of reading the alumni publication from my alma mater this week. Does anyone else read these things? Well, if you’re in recovery from a type A personality, like me, then you probably shouldn’t. It featured all these fabulous people making important and amazing contributions to the world. Artists, writers, researchers, engineers – they were all beautiful with their hair and their families, smiling. They were all busy doing stuff.
The whole thing sent me reeling into an existential crisis.
“What am I busy doing?” I wondered.
Then I remembered…
chasing butterflies
playing peekaboo with clouds
stopping in the street to take pictures of goats in a rainstorm
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September 13, 2013 at 12:48 am
Jackie Cangro
I hope all those busy people profiled in the magazine have found the value of chasing butterflies and communing with goats. 😉
September 26, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Lunar Euphoria
Me too Jackie.
September 15, 2013 at 3:44 pm
Kathy
Oh no, one shouldn’t read those magazines. Only the Type A people respond so it’s a skewed report. We all end up crying in our coffee before remembering that we chose the butterflies over the high rises. You done good. At least you recognize what’s important.
September 26, 2013 at 4:17 pm
Lunar Euphoria
Another one came in this week from another university. I read it too, of course.
September 16, 2013 at 12:32 am
Sylvia Ramos
Sweet post! Short and touching.
September 26, 2013 at 4:17 pm
Lunar Euphoria
Thank you. 🙂
September 26, 2013 at 2:02 am
Nat Koch
Alumni magazines also have the job of selling the school–hardly an unbiased source for testimony about graduates…
September 26, 2013 at 4:26 pm
Lunar Euphoria
True.
Still their graduates and current students really are doing fabulous things outside the magazine’s glossy pages.
September 27, 2013 at 11:37 pm
Nat Koch
Maybe. And fabulously reported on? There is something to be said for doing more than one thing. Everyone else’s life looks wonderful from the outside.