Posts Tagged ‘maturity’
On being comfortable in your own skin
- Which kind of misfit are you? A geek? A dweeb? A human with a tail? Some questions demand answers.
- Regarding humans with tails, I wasn’t referring to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, but apparently I could have been. (R.I.P. Ted! What’s bolder: Fighting for decades for health care reform, or dressing up as a purple dinosaur in public?)
- Whether you’re a misfit, a dinosaur or something else entirely, being comfortable in your own skin is a good thing. Hopefully I’ll recognize that state of mind when I get there…
Tags: aging, dweeb, geek, health care reform, mashable, maturity, mortality, nashville city paper, philosophy, politics, ted kennedy, venn diagram
I agree with Bredesen: Change is good
I definitely agree with this statement from Governor Phil Bredesen, who shares some of the lessons he’s learned along the way in the latest issue of Esquire magazine:
I would never vote for somebody who had never changed their mind on anything, because I know I was not crafted perfectly at age 18.
That’s at least one thing that Bredesen, Barack Obama and I agree on: Change is good (even if it can be difficult and painful). While I like to believe that the qualities that make me uniquely who I am have not changed substantially since I graduated from high school, some of my most earnest convictions about faith, politics and humanity surely have. (In most cases, I hope, they’ve changed for the better.) A good friend of mine once passed along advice from his father: “Be a Democrat while you’re young, and a Republican when you’re older.”
Although I reserve the right to vote for whomever I think is most fit for office, regardless of political affiliation, I’ve taken that advice, only in reverse. I’m much more liberal, progressive or whatever you choose to call it today than I was in 1991, but I think my eighteen-year-old self and I would still be able to be friends. Even in my more conservative days, what mattered to me most were compassion and character. That much hasn’t changed, and I hope it never does.
Tags: barack obama, change, esquire, maturity, nashville, phil bredesen, philosophy, politics, tennessee
