Online musings

I sometimes wonder when it's the best time to settle down and start a family. Is it in your 20s, your 30s our maybe even your 40s? My father started his own family in his 40s and it looks like I will be following suit, that is if I ever get one. A number of people my age already have families of their own. They are my colleagues, my uni friends and even my school friends. Sometimes I envy them. In a few years my younger sister may have a family. Hell, even two of my younger cousins have families already! I hear that people who were born in the mid to late 80s and even early 90s are starting to have children too. So why haven't I got a wife and some children? As far as I am concerned I am not ready to be a family man. Whether I will ever be ready remains to be seen but I can't help but wonder if I will be better off alone. There will be less stress and less hassle. Moreover it will be a lot cheaper. However if I am lucky enough to have a successful business in the future,

Criticism affects us all. It can dent people's confidence. Everyone goes through criticism throughout their lives, perhaps some more than others, but it's how you deal with it that counts. What I am saying is that it can make you or break you. It is the fear of criticism as well as the lack of confidence that is keeping me back from showing off my scripts and turning them into films or graphic novels. I am planning on building a website next year so that I can upload my scripts there for public viewing. I should expect criticism from the net surfing public but I have also been criticising my own work. After all writers are their own biggest critics. That is why they write and re-write their work several times. Some of my friends have read my very first script and they all thought it was good although I suspected it was a biased opinion. Those of them who dared to criticise my work said that the characters could have been developed a bit more, there was a lack of suspense and