Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Super Woman Much?!

Lately I've this weird rush of complete confidence in my career plans. I suddenly feel like, yes, I can change the face of foreign policy, and someday someone like George Clooney will make a movie about my life. It all started after those torture memos were released. I had this total reaffirmation of what I have always thought: I can't wait around for someone to make the changes I believe in. And then today, I was reading my book (The Post American World by Fareed Zakaria) and he was talking about perceptions of American foreign policy around the world. The consense is that American officials don't actually want to work with you unless working with you means you are going along with our plan. And that is what I hate!! That is what I want to change! It was like good old Fareed was saying, "Beezle, make shit happen." Since Ben and I have talked more, and I feel a lot better about how my plans are going to work in with us, I'm like, "There is nothing in my way!" Besides, you know, the established system and bureaucracy. But all great people in history stood up to the bureaucracy in their given field, and I want to do that. I'm ready to take on the system, suckahs. I hope this confidence lasts. It feels really, really good.

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