Social Expectations

I want to be perfect in every endeavour I undertake and in myself. I know that it's impossible, but to me, mediocrity seems a fate worse than death. I'm involved in many acting and public speaking activities, and while I do very well, I'm not as good as I could be. I've been in Forensics (public speaking with different sub-categories.  Read More »

This world was not built for me. It exhausts me. For most of my life, I have felt like an inadequate freak, because I hate parties, I hate meeting new people, and I am always two thoughts behind in the conversation. People have "diagnosed" me as all kinds of things--shy, ADD, bitchy, snobby, stand-offish, anti-social. In reality, I am none of those (except maybe ADD). You should see me work a room! When I am 'on,' all eyes are on me. I say all the right things, make people laugh, and leave the party with a loyal following of fans. Then I go home and hate people for three days straight. I am an Introvert.  Read More »

In Faulkner’s much vaunted The Sound and the Fury Caddie Compson responds to her brother’s questions of why she allowed a boy kiss her by taunting his horror of the defilement of what he perceives to be her honor, claiming

“I didn’t let him, I made him!”  Read More »