All The Things With Melissa Danielle

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein On my list of possible careers growing up was chef, baker, model, photographer, massage therapist, and world traveler. I wasted so much time in my 20s trying to figure out the ONE thing I could get good at long enough to stick with it and be paid well for it and nothing came of any of it. Now that I'm nearing my 40s, I'm over this shit. It has been so exhausting, trying to make myself fit into the box of specialization. There's so much noise about choosing one thing, when we're actually quite capable of being so much more. I'm currently reading Emilie Wapnick's How to Be Everything as part o