so instead of impressing my political or social views upon those of you who (silently) read my blog, I thought I would wax poetic about some more personal musings...
A Battle of One is an apt title for my tale of internal conflict, or anyone's internal conflict really, but since I'm the one writing I get the title. So where to begin? I've thought this post out several times trying to find the most eloquent words to use, but when it comes to actually writing most of those go right out the window. So lets try this approach...
Once upon a time a teacher told me that I was an "under achiever". A high school student at the time I scoffed at this and said to myself "what do they know?"and thought to dismiss the comment without a second thought. Being a whole 17 years of age it was easy to be haughty and dismissive. "Under-achiever" was in some ways a badge of honor because, well, I could be an over-achiever if I tried, right? Well no... er... maybe...
