Thirty One Things

• I am more successful than I deserve to be, but not half as successful as I desire.

• I am my growing collection of half-read books.

• I am my ability to spot a liar.

• I am the knowledge of when to leave a party.

• I am more Sal than Dean Moriarty.

• I am the t-shirts from my teenage years still sitting on my shelf.

• I am trying to sleep more to maintain my health.

• I am this newly found need to connect.

• I am the aches and pains that I collect.

• I am losing the fight against encroaching pessimism.

• I am older, wiser, smarter, stronger.

• I am not able to maintain this rhyming scheme for that much longer.

• I am worried that everything of note has already been made.

• I am my fear of just doing okay.

• I am seeking more comfortable trousers.

• I am the devil’s advocate.

• I am slowly figuring this whole thing out.

• I am not able to park a car like my Dad.

• I am not currently in ownership of a car.

• I am my acute sense for potential dangers.

• I am proud of my contradictory nature.

• I am my best stories told over dinner.

• I am quite happy to let you be the winner.

• I am hoping science elongates the life-span of dogs.

• I am my thousands of projects, never to be finished.

• I am my disdain for doing the dishes.

• I am my ever expanding list of rejections.

• I am more at peace with being rejected.

• I am my wish to go to Japan, alone.

• I am starting to appreciate the wonder of trees.

• I am barely getting started…

  M.G