Famous Phil; I Flounder

I've misplaced my camera. I seriously have no idea where it is: haven't seen it since I came home from our Poetry group yesterday, having taken it with me running errands but not even used it. I never lose things! Just like I never leave anything behind, like I did twice during my recent trip... Scary to me it is. And how am I supposed to post recipes or landscape pics now?

Meanwhile, Phil is famous! He's on the front page of the local newspaper...

...and here's a link to the article.

Phil is a very fine public speaker, and could have been an amazing demagogue: he knows almost too much about how people tick (and how to make them tick). It's budget (cut) season again, and with a daughter working at the library and decades of experience as a librarian himself, he went along to the City Council meeting and spoke eloquently and persuasively about why the City should not cut the library's already tiny budget. Evidently he made quite a splash: his presentation was widely cited as key in the Council's decision not to cut the Library budget this year.

I'm proud of him, and it's also thought-provoking and admirable to me that Phil doesn't choose to do very much of this. He knows he's very good at it, but he doesn't enjoy it very much. Generally, Phil is very successful at focusing on what he does love to do, and doing that. Quite a radical choice, when so often the message is that if you have a talent, you are obligated to use it.

I have two or three recipes backed up now that I haven't been able to photograph, plus more holiday goodies. I woke up later than expected this morning, the horror of which it's taken me most of the day to recover from. I have a "packet" due to my mentor tomorrow and an appointment in the morning. I realized today that I have a whole lot more work to do than even I realized for my Linguistics course.
What am I doing on here?

Apologies for this frazzled posting. What do you think? Should someone use a talent they have, or should they choose to do what they enjoy?