Be creative!

Today will be a little bit different than the other posts. I know I haven't been really on top of writing anything, and I do apologize for that -- but today we're going to cover something that sort of fits with the subject of Being a Gentleman, and sort of doesn't.

When's the last time you were creative?

Did you paint?
Play an instrument?
Draw?
Dance?
Write?
Cook?
(Yes, cooking counts too. It's delicious creativity.)
When's the last time you were proud of something you did? Did you wish you could do it better, or that you'd never started it?

Those who never start are doomed to failure, because they can't even find the courage to begin. Those who begin have already won, because they dared to do something. Each person has a little bit of weirdness inside them. People who successfully do something with their weirdness are called "geniuses" or "talented". Those who try to be something they're not, and be gifted at something they have no talent for are called "failures".

I argue that they're not failures.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that no one is a failure.

They simply haven't tried.

There's a story written by an author named Roy Williams. He's one of the most brilliant men I know. The tale is called Destinae, and I encourage anyone on a journey to read it. What the story is about depends entirely on who you are and what you want to achieve. Don't get me wrong -- this isn't one of those "choose your own" stories where you keep your fingers in the pages to go back if you chose wrong. This story is completely solid. It's the adventure of a man...

... and a beagle.

Check it out, adventurers.
Aroo, aroo.