You Make me Better
“You’re like Hanuman,” said my mother. I started. “Excuse me?” “You always need to be reminded of your own ability.” Abilities, indeed. It can be difficult for me to toot my own horn. It’s not a good thing to do to begin with, but in some sense, I could use the ability. What are my skills? What can I be confident about? Granted, these are questions I’ll keep asking myself for a long time, maybe even for the rest of my life. However, certain things I would like to be confident about. I’m hoping that opening up about it will help somehow. And maybe along the way, I may answer a question I have been asked so many times that it’s gotten stale for me. Honestly, even beginning to write this article is a huge step for me, one I struggled to take as I typed this. Astrophysics and astronomy. That’s what this article is about. And even then, there’s so much I’d like to encapsulate. This…subject (let’s call it that for now) has been an important part of my life for thirteen years now. As...