The Land Before Time

As a little girl, I used to be obsessed with dinosaurs. I was a strange little person...with strange interests. As a small girl who wore bright neon yellow shirts with pink and white polka dotted short, courtesy of my relatives in Korea, I wasn't so much into Barbies as I was into eating Playdoh and climbing trees and riding my bike up and down hills. My fascination with dinosaurs, which, according to my dad is actually very common among small children, began when I was five. I really think it was the precursor to my obsession with horses that followed soon after. My obsession with the brontosaurus, which looks like an elongated version of a horse if you think about it, eventually led to my die-hard love for horses and anything equestrian-related.

But this post is not about horses. It is about dinosaurs. Rather, the dinosaurs that still exist in the present.

The dinosaurs that I have encountered in 2010 in a professional environment are the following:

• Typewriters. From the early 1980s, possibly 1970s. Used to be gray/white in their prime, now are a dusty grayish yellow. I actually witnessed one of them being repaired one day. Why, WHY, WHY! Just leave it alone to die. Please. Nobody is benefiting by resuscitating a broken typewriter from the land before time.
• CRT monitors. So old, that they have the classic fishbowl curve to them. Concave/convex, the hell if I know. All I know is that these give me a level 10 headache if used for too long and that they are given away for free on Craigslist.
• Computer-Illiterate People who think that not being able to know how to use a computer is OK when their livelihood is actually based on using the computer to complete their responsibilities.

Thankfully, these dinosaurs no longer haunt my present but it makes me wonder, how many more places are there out there that have stegosauruses and ankylosaurs roaming around, plundering the good earth of its natural resources.

There is much more I could say about modern-day dinosaurs, but I will save it for another day.

I haven't blogged in a very long time, and I quickly skimmed over some of my old entries. It just reaffirms the decisions that I have made in my life recently. It is amazing how the person I used to be and am supposed to be can reappear so quickly. Since I graduated college in 2007, I felt like I didn't know myself and I could feel myself turning into someone that I didn't want to be at all. Today, I can safely say that I am the happiest that I have been in the past three years and it feels amazing. I can't say for certain that anything fortuitous has happened recently, or that my life is perfect now because all of the pieces have fallen into place, it's more of the opposite in that I have just started putting the pieces together but not because anything was broken, but because I am assembling my life into the way I see fit.

My mentality has changed and widened so much and it is a change for the better. Life is nothing without passion and drive, and nothing can be achieved without hard work.

All I know is, that from now on, my life will be done my way.