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[ragdoll13]

It's depressing to realize that I've already farted away most of my youth and now will likely never be an award-winning chef.

I shall while my life away as a glorified office clerk, cooking magnificent food at home for my friends and wishing it had a larger venue. Then I will gather up the soiled dishes and go to bed alone, and dream of mocking laughter.

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[harriet-m-welsh.livejournal.com]

I don't understand what you are saying here, because I am eight years older than you and never do I feel that I am too old to do any fucking thing I want to do.

[ragdoll13.livejournal.com]

Most of the people who are renowned for cooking started when they were like, sixteen. In the glitzy world of culinary fame, I am an old maid.

[harriet-m-welsh.livejournal.com]

You mean like Julia Child, who went to cooking school at the ripe old age of 36?

[ragdoll13.livejournal.com]

okay, there's one.

And let's face it, Teri... not everyone is as capable as you are.

[velveteen.livejournal.com]

Or you can realize that you have two-thirds of your life left, bust a little ass, and become whatever you want.

We'll always be outshone by prodigies born in the right places, but that's no reason to rush into the grave.

[ragdoll13.livejournal.com]

It's extremely unlikely, actually, that I'll live to see ninety.

[velveteen.livejournal.com]

You say that like you have no time left.

I deal with this anxiety myself; kids in Oakland have had as much training on turntables as I do by the time they're out of middle school. As is, I spend too much time agonizing about my skill level instead of spending time practicing. And that just puts me further behind.

At the same time, my (newfound) ability to tell myself, "stop agonizing and get scratching" directly correlates to my skill level - and this has placed me at a skill level beyond almost every DJ I've seen in Bellingham. While I have a distance to go before I'm, say, famous, I've only been at this professionally for a couple years.

Intuition tells me that you've got more experience slinging kickass corned beef than I have spinning tracks. Don't mistake: I break my vegetarianism for your St. Patty's corned beef every chance I get. I, among others, know that you don't fuck around when it comes down to the gourmet vittles.

In other words, I don't think you have any reason to worry. If you're really hungry to become an amazing and widely recognized chef, and you know how to get what you need, then you've got more than enough time to do so, methinks.

[fenmere.livejournal.com]

Bull shit. A fair chunk of the master painters in the world started painting sometime past their forties. One women even started when she was in her late sixties. You can master anything at any time.