What would the title of your biography be? (I know it’s supposed to be a biography, but I am the most honest when I feel like I’m talking to myself rather than about myself).
“It’s All Fine”
I say this a lot, usually sarcastically, because if I’m saying it, things are probably not fine. However, I think there is a truth to it. If it’s not fine now, then maybe one day it will be. Things change, and I’ll figure things out.
Alternatively....
“More”
The first thing I could think about was a lyric from one of my favorite songs, “Dreams” by the Cranberries. To me, it’s the kind of song that would play at the beginning or the end of a movie where the story is full of possibilities. Everything exciting and awful and wonderful has yet to come or it’s all passed and we’re continuing on a new journey. There is this one line that always gets me right after the first chorus, “I want more, impossible to ignore, impossible to ignore.” It speaks to some undeniable truth for me. I don’t think I’ll ever stop wanting more for myself, my friends, my family, and for people as a whole. This is true now and it will probably be true then.
Book Flap
It’s cliche, but we all know life isn’t a straight line. It’s not even a zig-zag. It’s messy and confusing.
There is a moment when you really know you’re an adult, and it’s when you learn that everyone around is just making it up as they go. I didn’t have the answers when I was 20, I only kind of have them now. Figuring out what I wanted to do with my life was a long journey, and there is nothing in the terms and conditions of life that says that I cannot change my mind later. But I’m actually feeling pretty good about where I am right now.
Fresh out of college, with no clue what to do with my life and not ready to say goodbye to academia, I decided to return to Scotland for grad school, the place I was rudely pulled away from during my abroad semester due to a global pandemic. I spent a year under cloud-covered skies, drunkenly singing ABBA with my friends at 2 am in dirty clubs, and walking under the ruins of castles that have stood longer than the Constitution has been in existence. As I pursued my masters, I interned at a tech company, fine tuning my ideas of what work life would look like.
From there, I decided to return to the States and live in New York. I’ve always loved big cities, mostly for the walking distance and public transportation (even if that public transportation is bad. If I don’t have to drive, then I win). While here I was making my way as a UX Designer. I’ve always loved storytelling, and this was a field that allowed me to be creative and challenge me to make unique experiences. It was the loneliest but also most crowded period of my life. I ate my way through as much takeout as possible, and struggled through my own personal turmoil, and was successful in taking care of anothing living thing that wasn’t me (a cat named Denver). I loved New York until I was sick of it. I took a new job that allowed me to travel. I wanted to see everything and anything.
After a constant change in scenery, I needed a change in profession. I finally decided to go into animation films, working with incredible people to take films to new heights while changing the way we make films.
I didn't know if the Strategic Planning bit belonged here so it is put with my other Goals just because it fit that format.
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