#whodidthedicks

the calling from professor.ASUKA in Taiwan.

You’re allowed to just do things for fun.

He told me that in this modern society, especially the United States, we seem to have this attitude that we shouldn’t do something unless we’re aiming to be the best at it. If we can’t sing like Beyonce or Frank Sinatra or something there’s no point to singing. If we can’t make the next big breakthrough there’s no point in looking into mechanics and engineering.

But, he tells me, it took him a long time to figure out that life doesn’t have to be a race. If you want to take up the piano when you’re a teenager or later you’re not going to master it. You’re not going to be able to play to huge concert halls, but that also shouldn’t stop you. You can study a language out of curiosity and then drop the ball if you want. You can just get okay at something or even be terrible at it. You can drop it for days or years and then pick it up again and it doesn’t have to be a shameful thing.

I’m really glad he told me that because today I opened my sketchpad for the first time in months and just started drawing. And it looks terrible. But I don’t care. I don’t have the talent or patience or spacial awareness to get anywhere near good at drawing, but it’s fun. It helps me focus my mind and nobody has to see it.

And because of what he told me, I’m thinking maybe someday soon I will take up the bass guitar. And I won’t worry about how well I do, or how fast I learn, or that I haven’t played an instrument since sixth grade, or that I don’t have that much time to practice. I’m just gonna enjoy the experience. Maybe I’ll try swing dancing again and take a class because I’m not the best dancer but damn if it isn’t fun.

•a malevolent plant from space who eats people

•a relatively obscure failed french rebellion that had a 1400 page novel written about it

•drag queen boot factory

•child laborers going on strike to receive slightly better pay and then going immediately back to a life of child labor (but with lots of dancing)

•mormons doing a terrible job of spreading their religion

•don’t have sex, because you WILL get pregnant and die: german farmchildren remix

•the life of the first american treasury secretary

•racist puppets

•trying to upstage shakespeare with a musical about eggs

•a barber who kills people and gives the bodies to a baker to make into pie

•the wicked witch of the west’s backstory

•fucking shrek

•a town that needs to pee

•I’m Sondheim And I Did Edgy Fairy Tales Before The Studios Did

•literally whatever Rocky Horror is