Wild Woman Chronicles
Adventures in the life of artist, creatrix, and all around goddess of cool stuff, Jennifer. Everything from soapmaking, candlemaking, welding, sewing, knitting, all things artsy and craftsy!
Friday, Jan 18, 2008
Soap, Candles, What the heck!
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salt soap review, candle line decisions, what i've been doing, where am i going, the book that started it all
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Hi... I just wanted to comment on your feeling a bit scattered about your various interests... you're not the only one. I think that's a natural state for more people then even realize it.
In this day and age, we are taught that people are supposed to be specialists... that we're supposed to pick one thing and do that as our sole contribution to society... we're supposed to be doctors OR bakers OR artists OR gardners... we're encouraged to "follow our dream!" with the sort of implicit directive that we're supposed to have only one dream. The "do what you love and money will follow" idea seems to suggest that we each have one single useful talent that, if we just figured out what that one thing was and threw our whole passion into it, we would make the world a better place and find our true happiness, our one true destiny...
I think there are SOME people who are built that way, but I think there are also a good number of people, you and me for example, that are more apt to the old-fashioned "renaissance man" ideal... the "jack of all trades" concept that has lost value in this modern world that is built for and around specialists.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with moving from craft to craft, from interest to interest... it's how we become that well-rounded person some of us are more suited to becoming.
I owned a book once called "Refuse to Choose" which talked about how some people are what the author called "scanners"... we scan the horizen and persue anything that looks interesting, sometimes in nominal depth, sometimes only skimming the surface. She helped me understand that just getting the tip of the iceburg, if it was the tips of lots of iceburgs, could be just as valuable as excavating a whole, single topic. You might like that book... just thought I'd let you know that it's not wrong to not be able to find your "one true destiny"... I'm sure that you, like me, have lots of destinies.
Blessings and good luck!
-Scarlet