Ok, time for a pep talk!

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Ok, time for a pep talk!
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Mon, 08-09-2004 - 5:25am

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 08-12-2004 - 3:33pm
The Japanese is going better than I realized. I took my middle girl for her schedule pick up today and bought the workbook for her Japanese I course...one for her and one for me, because I thought going through it with her and my youngest daughter would be good. I looked through it and up to about halfway, I know it ALL! So even though I don't think I am, I'm making progress.

I hear you on the maladjusted intelligent guys. I've dated a couple of those and it's a DOWNER! I will tell you in my limited experience what I think the problem was. The ones that I dated that were very negative, mean and/or depressed were not achieving anything NEAR their full potential. For what they had to work with they were being lazy BUMS! Low level, low paying jobs for both of them. They made ME depressed.

The difference with Trav is he's such a damned OVERachiever. He has two BA's and a PhD, he is highly paid and uses every skill he has in his job. He trains other people to do what he does when he's not actively doing it. He is in a job where he pushes himself to the limit of his capabilities pretty often. This has it's own set of problems, no doubt, but that gnawing sense of guilt at underachieving is NOT one of his problems. He's a very positive kind of guy and he is in touch with his emotions, but keeps them in check.

I think most of the time I spent depressed was from the same thing, not using what I have.

I don't have any wide ranging statistics, but that's what I see in every day experience.

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