30-Day Blog Challenge: 10

Day 10: Something at which you’ve been a champion or the best.
This question is harder to answer than I initially expected. I’ve done a great deal of things in my life but no activity in which to call myself a master. Perhaps that’s me being cynical and hard on myself, but really, I feel like there’s nothing in my life that I do better than others.

There is always someone who I look up to or admire. I’m no champion of my craft by any means. On the other hand, I will admit that I have done a great breadth of things that I am proud of. There’s things in my personal life, social life, and education which have made me an elated winner for fleeting moments, and I’m always aspiring to reclaim the title once again.

Yet in the immediate moment, I’m at a lack of success and feel like the world is my dominus. It’s the tail-end of award season and everyone around me has gotten recognition. Of course, they’ve done great work to deserve it, but still, it pains me to have been rejected from my applied scholarships and other endeavors. I can’t say I’m that surprised, but not getting what I sought out to achieve still sucks. I suppose I must remind myself that this is all a result of my youth and relative inexperience.

I long for the day that I can confidently say that I have mastered and become a champion of something. However, I know that notion to be unrealistic. In fact, it’s a bit pompous to presume that anyone can ever achieve that state of being. Who in this world is perfect? Who dares to claim and be? If you’re that person, hubris is your downfall and that is no character trait I would wish upon myself.