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Less is More
Saturday, July 19, 2014 at 9:13 AM
Beginning from my pre-teen years, there's always at least one other girl named Kat who is in the same class as I was. Kat or Katrina is quite a common name so it doesn't come as a surprise to me if there were one or more people who share my name. That's when I was given the nickname "Kat Zab" for the sake of proper identification.
But I was always the lesser Kat of the bunch. I was always the lesser Kat compared to the other Kat in class. I was barely recognized and the distinction wasn't really needed because, well, I didn't stand out. I was okay with that and I learned to live with it. That all changed when I started writing. I actually don't remember how or why I started writing... I just did. I wasn't aware that apparently I had talent for it. Soon enough, I was better than the other Kats who also wrote things. And then I was back to the environment where writing wasn't the main skill that one should have. I was, yet again, the lesser Kat... In looks, in test scores, and generally people's choice... And I am okay with it. At least I thought I was. Who decides that I am the lesser one anyway? I decide for myself. I guess it's time to decide otherwise. I don't want to be the better Kat. I want to be that Kat where the other Kats don't even deserve a comparison with me. |
“In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.”
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