The future. Greatness. Desire. It's just within reach. Sure it's a long road, but half the fun of it is just being ON that road. All these years, and I'm just now making the turn. I'm in the final stages of the screening for this government job. I already have it... I just have to do physicals and paperwork. It will have me working 4 10 hour days a week. It's perfect for giving me time to make my art. Especially since it's federal. Huge promotion potential... good benefits... job security... and the stability to both have a family, and be an artist. It's probably a shit job, but I promise you... I've had worse, and as long as I can do what I please with my free time, I'll be happy.
The Greatness? Oh, I almost forgot. I'm a bit of an optimist. It's not so much to a fault, because I can usually convey my vision to a person well enough for them to want to be a part of it. In a way, it's a tool for acquiring allies, and in my kind of art... you need them. So, to achieve greatness, I have to work. Fight. Put my stories out there. Obviously I'll need somebody to come behind me and keep things in order. I tend to go the long way about expressing myself, particularly in writing, but I can articulate it better. The whole writing thing moves so slowly that I lose track of my own mind at times. Anyways, that's where I am.
Greatness... I'm going for it. And you know what? I'm really confident that even if the wheel of fate decides that I will never succeed the way I hope to... I'm gonna have a good time making it work to keep me down. And if I die a failure... I'll at least die a great one. That's greatness to me.
Ken
