I am going to ramble a little bit, just to warn you.

[endgames]

So again I go to hear a speaker, and again I am impressed and entertained and outraged and inspired and humbled and discouraged into doing exactly what I always do: nothing. I kind of wish I aspired to things like changing the world, but I don't know if I honestly believe one person can, and I don't know that I really want to. I aspire to being

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[emostrife]

amen. really. I often feel exhausted trying to just achieve mediocrity, mind you greatness.

[laurick]

Being Jewish, and in India, I was a little miffed that Handwerker put on that particular exhibit :oP

And if any advice from a fellow carb-counter/reception lurker helps, I think you're expecting too much from yourself and freaking yourself out. Set little goals that you know you can achieve, and focus on that. You don't have to singlehandedly start a campaign to stop AIDS in Africa, not all of us are super!Park Scholars like that. Sometimes it's enough just to give blood or buy Girl Scout cookies (you don't have to eat them). Forget about the whole "I should" thing.

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[euromusic]

I forget how it is said, but it's something like, "Your deepest, most inner thoughts that you don't share are actually the ones most of us have