Strong and Weak

Strengths... and weaknesses...

Do I know my limits? Do you know yours? Do you know where you can reinforce? Hide? Put forward?

I'd like to think I know where I'm strongest. And also where I'm weakest. I've spent time working to improve my weaknesses. My glaringly obvious weaknesses. But to what end? To make myself more well rounded? I already feel I'm the jack of all trades. Everything well but nothing exceptional. It's a fruitless effort to try to "fix" myself (for lack of better term). But I suppose in my case it's also futile to "reinforce" my strengths just the same. So what do I have then? If one has equitable amounts of strengths and weaknesses, then they are always in a state of constant equilibrium. Suppose I should just grow as a whole. Get?

No matter how much you try to overcome your weaknesses, they will always be your weakness. You may even circumvent your strengths from surfacing. You may even put more distance between the two ends. So why do it? We're all so concerned with making our weaknesses negligible. Concerned, worried, frustrated and scared. Lezz put aside the jack of all trades example and move to something more common to people. Someone with steel logic tends to lack in social empathy. So should they improve their social empathy? You would then lose your infamous logical thinking once you strive in improve your emotional response. What I'm getting at is embrace your weaknesses. Corny I know. Very corny. But it's true. Rather than try to "fix: your inabilities. Know them. Use them to your advantage. It's quite easy to say but harder to do. Oh man is it hard. It's like those zen teachings that make so much sense on the surface. But. In action. It's like moving mountains. We're dead set to "make better". We've been taught. Told. Chastised. For our weaknesses. I'll try my bestest-est-est to give you an example. Bear with me now. (I lack that social tact that... well makes it's hard for me to convey sensitive topics...)

You want to be in a band. You are amazing at playing the guitar. You are the sic-est shit since, the last sic guitarist. (eloquently put as always ShadowlessTomorrow... ... ...) But! You want to sing. Too bad you suck. You sound like a chain smoking frog. Like an ox with a phlegmy throat. So what now? Take hours of lessons to improve. Make it a strength? Sure, try that. I can guarantee that road is long, hard, perilous and full of frustrations. You're innately just not good at singing. God blessed you with fast fingers. Not a lung full of sweet melodies. So play the shit out of your guitar. Make your shit so good that people will have to notice. Maybe ghostwrite lyrics. Know that you are worse than 12 year old girls on youtube and embrace that you make any guitar catch fire. Rather then spend years working on what you lack. If you spend half that time, invested in your primary skill, you would be a millions trillions quadratillion times better than a years worth of vocal courses.

What I'm leading to. Is that. I. Am. Just going to improve what I'm good at. Sure, I'll look into "fixing" my errs but not as much time as other concerned sheep. I'm not a lemming. And you are not either. So next time someone says, "hey you suck at this. Can you make yourself better?" Think about it. Think hard. But you shouldn't think long. It should be an instant pop-up message. Writers are writers. They are not cricket players. Do what you do best, and do it best. Your weaknesses will just happen to improve along the way. It's natural progression. Evolution of a person. Lezz move away from fixing yourself and move towards improving yourself. (Ha, I sound like an inspirational quote) Maybe you don't line down my sights. Maybe you do. Either way though. It's some brain food right? Right, right, right.

Self PSA,
ShadowlessTomorrow