Learning

As I have already established that this blog will be about me becoming an expert on things that I currently don't know about, I am going to write a post about things that I do know right now.

First of all, I know that I am young. Too young, in fact, to be considered in the age group for "Up and Coming Young Professionals" as described in an email I recently received. As a consequence of being young, I am also fairly inexperienced. I graduated college thinking I was a pretty special job candidate since I knew how to do mail merges with Excel. Now I can do mail merges AND equations.

I am also kind of dumb. Not in a bad way of course and not eligible-for-government-assistance-dumb. I am just a generally dumb 22-year old that has not figured out the world yet and is still shaking off the crippling anxieties of adolescence. I grew up learning to trust everybody, so it is slightly crushing to learn not to take everything at face value. For instance, a neighbor of mine recently stopped by to borrow butter. As a baking enthusiast I thought nothing of it. My slightly older and more experienced boyfriend however thought it a strange exchange and sure enough, the neighbor turned out to be a psychologically troubled person who later tried to break into half of the apartments in the building.

As frustrating as it can be to be young, to want to have all of the answers and be privy to none, I am coming to terms with my own stupidity. There could be worst things to be. I could be a young undiscovered genius struggling with the hoi polloi idiocy around me. Or Lindsey Lohan.