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I lost the manual when the path I’m on took a sharp turn and so now I’m here, finding things out again.
That quote is borrowed from the blog I Find, I Love.
Find Your Nietzsche.com was founded in March 2010 as I was hanging out with some friends in Portland, OR (where I currently reside). Sometimes we delight in making up unique and interesting domain names. You can imagine the rest and this is what I came up with. It’s taken a few months for this site to come to fruition.
Incidentally, the first talk I submitted to Ignite Seattle was accepted and I did Ignite Seattle 11. Note to self: it’s ok to be intimidated by the colorful cast of eloquent characters, ranging from Jacob A. (going dark) to Tom Lymphomartini’s Immunity on the Bounty. RIP. Seattle and I have such an interesting relationship now, but I’ll always be grateful for the true friends that I made up there that I’m still in contact with.
No matter what I’ve been up to in my own life, ranging from various educational pursuits to hobbies to projects and relationships, I’ve always been fascinated with how people have found their niche.
I’m Lisa, I’m days away from being 37, and it feels as if I’ve already lived 5 lifetimes. I’m an L.A. native, but have lived in Minneapolis and Seattle too, with bursts of travel nationally and internationally. It seems that I’m a late bloomer in most things, as I took my first plane ride when I was 23. I’ve have worked in the entertainment industry both behind the scenes and in front of the camera, an a licensed esthetician, a cosmetology student, a Psychology student. I’ve done accounting, bookkeeping, and retail and it’s funny how I’m good at things that I don’t particularly like. I’ve also pursued some more esoteric forms of dance.
However, one of my biggest life challenges is that I just popped out a kidlet. Talk about raising even more questions in this life. As the future progresses, I’m both relieved and scared, as I’d always figured that I was in the vague “someday” camp when it came to children. Now that someday is a reality as of May 24th, 2011.
I’ve no idea what I want to be when I grow up, but I do know that I’ve experienced a general malaise and impatience throughout my entire life that has not been the easiest affliction to deal with. Discontent isn’t necessarily like a disease that’s complete with blatant physical symptoms. It’s not readily identifiable like an open wound or a form of cancer, yet it can feel so debilitating, consuming you like a flame does to a moth.
A psychiatrist once told me that I had “an existential problem with life and that he couldn’t help me”.
I can tell you that I don’t believe that I have found my niche (or my Nietzsche) yet, but I’d like to think that I’m growing and evolving and that I don’t have to be a “grown up” to do so.
They say that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over, all the while expecting different results.
There are those out there in the world that will avoid looking inward at themselves whenever possible and won’t ever get off the train of loneliness. Lying to yourself is some of the worst pain imaginable.
People leave, but no matter where you go, there you are.
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Some people haven’t really lived and I don’t want to be one of those people.
I’m hoping to find my own niche, but maybe I’ve been living it all along? This site is going to illuminate every trial, tribulation, success and everything in between.
“But I have many friends, and some of them are with me.” – Leonard Cohen
It’s never too late to learn more, make necessary changes, and just be a better person.
I’m going to find out everything that I can about people, specifically their niches and share it with you.
Niche
Pronunciation: \ˈnich also ˈnēsh or ˈnish\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French, from nicher to nest, from Vulgar Latin *nidicare, from Latin nidus nest — more at nest
Date: 1611
a place, employment, status, or activity for which a person or thing is best fitted
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a 19th-century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive style and displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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