Clean Slate
Wednesday, December 6
Scientist and poet
On a whim, I went to this site to know my Chinese Calendar sign. I had a vague recollection that I was born in the year of the Horse, but what I read was even more surprising:
Year of the Horse
If you are born in the Year of the Horse then you are amazingly hard working and very independent. Although you are intelligent and friendly, you can sometimes be a bit selfish. Careerwise you would make a good scientist or poet.
It's uncanny how the description accurately pinpoints the only two occupations I have ever wanted my whole life. Ever since I was a kid, I loved writing poems most. But I also had fantasies of becoming a bespectacled, nerdy scientist who will change the world with her inventions.
But by third grade, this fantasy of mine vanished when I learned through a family friend (who became an accomplished chemist in Syracuse University) that being a scientist mostly meant being cooped up in a lab inventing things that won't change much in the world, and publishing studies that almost no one will read.
And so I suddenly became intensely focused on becoming a poet. I never once thought it wasn't a conventional profession. And I never thought it was any harder than being an employee in an office. Thankfully, I enjoyed this state of ignorance/bliss about writing until I entered university.
Now I wonder if I was really fated for this profession, as declared by my sign. And what of the other "horses" who find no interest in these professions at all? How do they come up with these descriptions?
Year of the Horse
If you are born in the Year of the Horse then you are amazingly hard working and very independent. Although you are intelligent and friendly, you can sometimes be a bit selfish. Careerwise you would make a good scientist or poet.
It's uncanny how the description accurately pinpoints the only two occupations I have ever wanted my whole life. Ever since I was a kid, I loved writing poems most. But I also had fantasies of becoming a bespectacled, nerdy scientist who will change the world with her inventions.
But by third grade, this fantasy of mine vanished when I learned through a family friend (who became an accomplished chemist in Syracuse University) that being a scientist mostly meant being cooped up in a lab inventing things that won't change much in the world, and publishing studies that almost no one will read.
And so I suddenly became intensely focused on becoming a poet. I never once thought it wasn't a conventional profession. And I never thought it was any harder than being an employee in an office. Thankfully, I enjoyed this state of ignorance/bliss about writing until I entered university.
Now I wonder if I was really fated for this profession, as declared by my sign. And what of the other "horses" who find no interest in these professions at all? How do they come up with these descriptions?
posted by neva, 2:02 AM
