Generally Speaking

Nowadays, everyone has a specialty, if they're someone.  Not me.  My so-called specialty is being a generalist.  I know a little about a few things but not particularly a lot about any one thing.  My brain just isn't wired that way.  I like the idea of embracing something new, then eventually moving on to learn or experience something else.  I greatly value those who are specialists because they are often experts who have the capacity to make the world a better place with their expertise.  Both my father and mother were specialists in that they had lifelong careers in their particular fields of choice. They were known for their specialties, my mom a nurse and my dad an expert in reptiles.  How in the world did they hatch me?  Rather than force me to be something I wasn't, my parents accepted and encouraged my liberal arts interests.  Despite the increasing emphasis on specializing these days, I'm becoming more and more pleased with floating around in my interests, dabbling a little in this and then a little in that.  The next time someone asks me about my specialty, I'll proudly say Generalism.