Almost a Year

[brigidforest]

Dear old friend,

I haven’t confided in you in a while.  It’s not that I don’t trust you or that I don’t enjoy silently catching up with my fellow confessors, but I simply can’t express this confusion I’m feeling in an articulate manner. My quarter-life crisis has not waned.  It’s only strengthened.  How do you fight against a tide that beats and

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[sidewalksg]

As I'm sure you know, I understand your love/hate relationship with writing. And I also understand the awfulness of being able to bring in money in any number of ways except the one way you need to be able to do it to be both financially sound and emotionally satisfied. I try very hard to explain it to myself sometimes. I should be bringing in more money, but my writing and my art both need me full-time to improve, and I need them in just the same way.

You are a good writer. You're a great writer, actually. I wish I had some words of wisdom -- or at least some words of encouragement to offer you. I'd even be happy with just being able to say something clever enough to make you laugh, but I've been running on empty lately. I promise you, though, that you're a talented writer. I might not be a published author, or a professor, or any sort of real authority on writing, but I know for sure that I'm a reader, and I love what I've read.

I hope maybe that will make you smile a bit.

[noparody]

this is strange for me to read because i've been in a similar crossroads kind of a place and feeling like i can't decide what direction to take myself after graduating

[brigidforest]

Thank you. You're extremely kind. I also wish you the best. These are quite intolerable decisions. The thing with me is that I already have security. I have John, which puts me in a quite nice position. But success is seductive. I can guarantee success one way but not the other

[noparody]

dunno bout the kindness thing -and no i don't get it either. i guess that was my point-is i feel really lost too