What am I good at?

In answering this question I should first of all consider the word ‘Good’. What is good in one mans eyes may be crap in someone elses, what I consider to be good may fade to insignificance when compared to something else, I am an artist and my own worst critic some work I have produced has been bloody lovely in some peoples eyes and in my own rubbish. There is something wrong, the paint is off, the collar is wrong and there is no neck. In other words it is unsatisfactory and I feel compelled to go back and start again. Sometimes I simply destroy the object and spend an inordinate amount of time bothering my head about that violent or destructive act. Other times I think it is the best thing ever done and and drop the thing like I would a hot stone, glad to be rid of it.

As an artist and a creator I like to think I am fairly good at a number of things. I can paint, draw, garden, build, chop up and build generally most things to do with working with my hands and making new out of old or something from not very much. I like to write and indeed that is what I am doing now. ( Not here.) I enjoy history and have a degree in the subject, I like art history and can hold my ground in that subject too. If I can write about history and keep it semi factual then all the better. People are liking my Austria story right now and I am enjoying myself writing it, whether it is any good and proves a success is another matter altogether. Naturally I would like to see it hit the best sellers list, whether it does or not is another matter and are best sellers all that good? I have read a few of them and at least one was un-pickupable, it proved a struggle to read and it soon got given away after finishing those four hundred odd pages. are thrillers a waste of ink, time and paper? They impart very little apart from action this and action that, it is a long time since I last read one of those.

Otherwise I can cook fairly well, am proficient in my chosen martial art and Ooh.. That would be telling. I am not very good at catching or hitting balls and am also shite at sports like football. Actually I loathe football, it sends me to sleep or out into the garden. I am good with money, but don’t bother asking me for any. I need to write more on this blog and am very good at putting things off or simply hyper focussing on those things that interest me at the time. The trouble is keeping on that path and not getting distracted.