People usually tell you what you want to hear - especially if you're a girl. There's some sort of social expectation to tell the girlfriend she doesn't look fat in that lumpy dress and the mother-in-law that you like her cat. Most of us get absurdly offended if we hear something other than what we expect. I mean, I probably wouldn't tell a friend not to go for a girl because she's way out of his league - but I guess guys do that to each other all the time.
(Girls...maybe we should fix that. I mean really...if my love handles look like a love tire, you should be able to tell me. But that's another post.)
But people tell me that I'm a writer. I read back over my stuff though, and it feels like I'm not saying anything new. Nothing new under the sun, type of thing. Everybody always thinks they have something to say that's worth hearing - but really, you waste a few precious seconds of my life when I read that your status that you are flossing, or your tweet that you hate studying. Who CARES. Last time I checked, no one I know dribbles with joy when they open a dry, monotonous textbook. So really, do I have anything unique and valuable to offer in my writing?
I think the only way to answer this question is to write, and maybe someone will find what I say worth their time.
