I guess in a way I've always felt the need to prove myself. One of four children with brothers and a sister all immensely talented in such different ways. I always had my academics. It seemed that was the only place I could surpass them. So it was natural that even as the third born I was the first to earn a four year degree.
But now, instead of using the degree I worked so hard to earn, my attention is focused on making in the journalism world. I've been a freelancer for two years and it has been filled with the most frustrating and rewarding experiences of my life. But its also exhausting to be simply a freelancer, and just as exhausting to continually explain how I leaped from playing with rocks and studying the ocean to sports journalism.
So finally, the SC Press Award winners were released. I won. I won an award. An journalism award but even more a sports journalism award. I took second place in the sports feature story category for my profile on Brian McCann after his rehab stint with the Pelicans.
My first thought was to call my parents and to tell them I'm going somewhere and they didn't waste their money on my degree.
But now I realize I'm proving my worth to just myself. I do belong in this world and in this career. I will make it and I will be successful.
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