Just A Rant

I am a highly creative person. Indeed I come from a family of them. My mother was a classically trained seamstress and the only reason that she was unable to put chef in front of her name is she didn't have the diploma. She taught herself carpentry and home repair. My father was, bedsides being a Narcissistic Psychopath, a fully trained certified mechanic and had all the skills of a general contractor, as well as plumbing and electrical. He also was well on his way to becoming a detective because of his attention to detail and obsessive nature. My sister worked for the appalachia service project and put roofs on houses and fixed plumbing and other things all through the Appalachian region. She currently runs a business called Blankets By Rye, were she makes quilts of various sorts and does alterations. She also can play multiple musical instruments. I lost count after the fifth. She is also an author like me, although she stays over at Fanfiction.

I myself am a author, as well as being a fairly decent cook myself and have taught myself quite a few decent technical skills, I built my own workspace. Most of the brackets for that I tooled myself. I have in the past made a decent living turning nerf guns into airsoft and paintball guns, not to mention a few stints making actual items for self defense. Yet no matter what I always hear the same thing out of people when I talk about these things.

"Oh, I'm just not as talented as you."

"........................."

No, what you are is lazy, I worked hard to do what I can do. I went from not having any hand eye coordination to being able to touch type almost as fast as I can think. Takes me a bit to get to that speed but whatever. I went from not being able to do any math to being able to build furniture and structures without taking measurements because I just no them in my head. I went from not having any verbal skills to being able to debate mythology and ethics with college professors. I worked hard, in many cases I caused myself to bleed out my face in my sleep I trained myself so well. I studied and memorizied, I put all the knowledge that I could gain into use. I bled for these things. But that must not be all true, right. Because I am so naturally gifted right? It can't be that I missed out on most of my childhood and pushed myself beyond sanity for something that I wanted until I attained it, huh? That line discounts and dismisses all the suffering and work all of us put in on our respective talents. You want what we have, go and get it. Bleed for it, break yourself for it, sacrifice for it. But don't discount what those like me have, because you are too fucking lazy to get it.

Sorry, this is kind of an old rant, but every now and again it pops up. Thanks for listening and as Always, ALL HAIL THE HOUSE OF REN!!!!!