If Talent Were Pizza, You'd Be a Supreme by Jack Weyland

Author:Jack Weyland [Jack Weyland Talks to Youth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0-87579-055-0
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2017-05-16T00:00:00+00:00

Homework

Take one of your most important goals and break it down into shorter-term goals. Then set yearly, monthly, weekly, and finally daily goals.

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Other Side

of the Coin

My parents were pleased I was dating again and had forgotten about Charly. The trouble was, I hadn’t.

I was miserable—a man dying of thirst in the middle of afresh-water lake....

One girl I spent a lot of time with was Kay Randall. We both were studying computer science, and had several classes together. In November, feeling guilty about never having asked her out, I invited her to a movie.

“Let’s say you take the worst possible case,” she droned on over a piece of pie in a restaurant off-campus after the movie. “Suppose you have a loss-of-cooling accident. What should you do?”

“What?” I asked.

“Aren’t you listening?”

“No, you’re really boring me,” I confessed.

“I thought you’d appreciate my [computer] program.”

“How about if we go to the airport at Salt Lake and pretend that you’ve just gotten off a plane from Yugoslavia, can’t speak a word of English, and I’m your boyfriend.”

“That’s a long way to drive for a kiss.”

“I don’t want to kiss you—I just want some excitement.”

“Thanks a lot,” she good-naturedly frowned.

“Or how about if we go to a Chinese restaurant and pretend we’re spies, and pass secret notes to each other?”

“That sounds really juvenile to me.”

“Right—let’s be juvenile.”

“Why?”

“I’m tired of being mature. It’s no fun. Kay, let me ask you a personal question. OK?”

“Well, I guess so.”

“Do you have a things-to-do list?”

“That’s a personal question? Yes.”

“Me, too. And every morning do you write down what you want to accomplish that day, then when you’ve done it, you check it off the list?”

“Sure, I do that.”

“Isn’t that terrible?” I groaned.

“I don’t see anything terrible about it.”

“Don’t you? It’s ruining our lives.” I pulled out my three-by-five card from my shirt pocket. “Here’s mine today. ‘Do laundry. Put on snow tires. Take Kay out.’ At the end of our date, I’m going to put a check beside ‘Take Kay out.’”

“So?”

“So you’re just one more on the list with dirty clothes and bald tires.” (From the novel Charly.)

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