Michael Hopkins Cartoons Blog: Lollygagging

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Lollygagging

One of those thought provoking moments happened the other day, while discussing my future caricature events with a *wantrepreneur.

*wantrepreneur a person who aspires to be an entrepreneur, especially one who never realizes this ambition -https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wantrepreneur )

I realized something during our conversation, this guy’s got his shit together more than I do (which doesn't mean he's got his shit together, it just means that he's got his shit together more than I do) The difference between him and myself is that he has specific, formulated and even some activated plans. I don't know if I’d agree with him that his plans are good plans, but at least he's got plans and I respect that. Lately, I feel like I’m just lollygagging through this life of an artist (with an end goal of self independence (or happiness, as I like to put it.) He’s proactive about his goals, I’ve been reactive about mine.I need to become proactive.

Skip : You guys. You lollygag the ball around the infield. You lollygag your way down to first. You lollygag in and out of the dugout. You know what that makes you? Larry!

Larry : Lollygaggers!

Skip : Lollygaggers.

Bull Durham (1988)

To that end I have decided to quit lollygagging. Sure I've gotten by as a Lollygagger. Luckily my talent has been carrying this reactive person through life lately. However, the talent side of my brain is getting tired of carrying the load, so it's time to wake up the other side of the brain and become, Proactive Man!! (UGH! I’m going to need more coffee…). With that end in mind, I'm working on my first step.. I’ve reutilized the name Michael Hopkins Cartoons, built a new website and now I’m just waiting for Internet Gods to recognize my URL, michaelhopkinscartoons.com (in the Internet Gods defense, it’s been a while since I used that URL) Through this new website, one will be able to access all my stuff though one website