better.

Talents. Everyone has them. A talent to write amazing music. A talent to sculpt a human from a marble prism. A talent to surgically repair a heart. A talent to understand how electricity works. A talent to understand how people think. There are an infinite number of talents out there; some come naturally, others have to be obtained through effort.

My question, then, is...what are my talents?

It seems to me that...everyone in the world is exceptionally good at something. Or at least, much better than your average person. There is always one naturally-given talent people have that a simply second nature to them. I'm really wondering what mine are...

Have I not yet discovered it?

Is this all there is to me?

I honestly hope that I will be able to find out soon... I may just be stuck to focusing on talents that are really not talents at all: merely actions I can do better than the average person. I only think I'm good at them. I mean, sure, there will always be someone who can do something better out there. There ALWAYS will be someone better. I've known that all my life. But I want to at least be up there with one talent...just...what is it?

ants.

So I thought now would be a good life update.

My job working at Trellis Cafe is coming to a close. The people I work with are really cool; it's kinda sad I won't see them again. But people come and go, right? At least I had some good memories.

The current problem is that once this job ends, I don't have another one to go to. I gotta do some major job-searching. My mom recommended the LDS Job Search place down by DI, so I think I'll try that.

growing.

I recently had a discussion with my friend about growing up, and I wanted to put it on the table for more opinions. What happened between my Sophomore year and high school graduation was a maturation. As you know, for me, it was a heart-breaking, nature-creating truth-realizing few years for me, and sadly, almost all of my maturity was not from self-realization. Many different people, young and old, taught me through my mistakes how a grown up was meant to act. Now I'm not the kind of person that supports normalcy, at least in a pop-cultural way, but I have a firm belief that when it comes to human interaction, a middle ground must exist. The success of an individual through business and intimate relations, whether it be a client or a friend, can only be obtained by human interaction. We live in a world with more than 6 billion people. 6,000,000,000. How many of those people are different from the other? Every single one. How, then, can an enterprise be established, or a friendship be forged, without the ability to begin on a middle ground? I think growing up helps us know just how to act on that middle ground.

introductions.

Hello, greetings, bonjour, hola, konichiwa, aloha, yo, bonjourno, aloha, anything to wave my hand in your face and say: my name is Matt Staib, and this is my blog.

I guess you can consider this my second online journal, my first being here, but this one will focus more on my life and ideas more than just my nerd opinions over at the other one. I'll still share nerd ideas over here, though.