Sporadic Whispers: Musings of a Part-Time Writer

This is another one of those books I picked up because of my admiration/ facination with the author. Although most of my facination of Matthew comes from the interviews of him I have seen on the internet over the years and not from his movies (most of which I must admit, after reading the book, have not watched or even heard of).  I'm going to try and keep this one short as I am still trying to find it in myself to write consistently. I am happy to share that I have been able to write consistently even a few short lines daily for the last 3 months or so although I have not shared any of it anywhere since they were all journal entries. But the reason why I am sharing this here is because of Matthew. (I don't know why but calling him just Matthew and not by his full name feels weird. But also I am not going to type in his full name because that will be a handful). Anyways before I stray off too far, I heard from one of his interviews that he has been maintaining a journal/ dairy ...

 I have always been an attention seeker, I guess. Which is probably I was an angry kid back then. I was violently angry, especially at home and around people who were close to me. I wanted people to like me and give me attention so when ever things didn't go my way I'd throw a fit and be loud enough for people to notice. I am also a people pleaser which is also, now that I think about it, maybe a way for me to gain attention. And I think I've said this before; I want to be remembered long after I am gone. Back then, when social media was not as big as it is today, I thought one of the ways to be able to realize my attention seeking goal was to write a book or two and to achieve that I needed to start writing. So, I started "blogging". But that didn't have the effect I was expecting, I didn't become a good writer, I couldn't become a consistent writer and I didn't get the attention that I wanted. I got reactions, yes. There were a couple of people w...

I was dissapointed when I put down 'The Psychology of Money' by Morgan Housel after I finished reading it. It didn't have anything new for me. I didn't learn much from this highly recommended financial help book.  Now after my experience with the book, would I recommend this book to other people? Deninitely! with a little fine print, of course. Let me set the stage, the book was published in October 2020, and I read it mid 2025. Also I have always loved reading bits and pieces on financial literacy and listened to podcasts and watch both long form and short videos on similar topics (althought I must point it out that I have never been able to apply any of the ideas in real life). So for me when I finished reading this book the information in there was barely new to me. I had heard and read of the same ideas over the past few years.  I have nothing against the author or the content of this book in this book review of mine. I am not disagreeing with the author on anything...

  I was really looking forward to read it before and when I bought the book.  Getting an insight into the life of someone I've seen onscreen has always been fun for me. Plus from  what I have seen of Terry Crews, I always thought he was an interesting human being.  It's not that I didn't like the book.  I just couldn't finish it as soon as I would have liked to. I don't remember when I first started reading the book but it definitely feels like it took me around 6 months to finish the book. There are so many books I have been wanting to read but the thing is I am someone who needs to finish one before  I start reading another. This is the reason why I once didn't read a single book in over a year because I found the book I started reading to be so dull that I couldn't be bothered to finish it.  Which a...

Oh how I have always misunderstood what narcissist meant. And I always thought I wasn't one. There was no way I was one. But then I googled it's meaning today right before I started witing this. Why, you might ask.  I was frustrated at work today, totally lost my temper again. I had so many thoughts rushing through my head as I finished up work and drove back home. I actually wanted to justify my feelings at first. I wanted to do a social commentary on other people's morals and principles or at least of what I presumed they were. And compare it to my own morals. By the time I sat down to write this, I had some time to think and take a deep breath.  My wife has this thing she tells me to remember whenever I lose my temper, especially because of what others do; 'Who are you? Who are you to them? What gives you the right to be mad at others? How is you losing your temper going to change anything?' A "narcissist" refers to someone exhibiting traits of narcissi...