I don't believe in the idea that each of us was born for some greater purpose. We were born because our parents loved each other, and, well, that often leads to this sort of thing. Or, some guy forced himself onto our mother, and she wasn't able to get an abortion. Or, in my case, abortion wasn't legal, and my father never could keep it in his pants, and my mother was desperate not to become an old maid, so the best way to prevent it was to force a shotgun wedding.
(As a side note: When I was a kid, I used to think it was weird that my grandmother's first words upon seeing me were to comment that I did indeed look like my father's side of the family.)
I say all that because I was not born to do what I am doing. That, I suppose, begs the question: What am I doing?
Oh, I'm so glad you asked. Let me tell you a situation I got myself into here.
So, I went to a library meeting several months ago. At this meeting, I learned a lot. First, what I'm learning for my Master's program has no place in most libraries. Second, not all libraries have Friends of the Library to support them. I had just assumed the two grew up together and then got married because that's what we did back in the day.
This troubled me. So I kinda looked at it. And, being the kind of person I am (namely, the kind that looks briefly before jumping), I said: "Sign me up, I'll put together a Friends of the Library."
I was not born to do this sort of thing. In fact, even if personality is genetic, I definitely was not created to do this sort of thing.
However, I can get past that part. I can realize that, to be frank, no one else can do this. That's, of course, because no one else is willing to do this. And that can get me to accept this situation I have put myself into.
The tax code stuff, though. I'm sorry. This stuff is going to kill me. Do you even know how much work goes into starting a non-profit? I'm on step two of ten, and I want to crawl under the covers and not come out until the next millennium.
