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[athena2]

I don't post, anymore.
David doesn't post anymore.
Tom posts infrequent dossiers that are ridiculously short.
And everyone else is sparce too.

Friends are people that give us excuses for our failures in life.
Not sure why we expected this to work.

None of us are currently driven to do any of this.
Just pretending.

Comments

[stephywang]

I like to write, but I feel that I am pathetically slow at it, and I'm not sure if I want to/am good enough to do this for the rest of my life/am afraid that I'm not good enough. I'm not prolific and I have this inability to juggle work/school and extracurriculars/fun stuff at the same time. It's either one or the other.

I joined because I thought it would give me a reason to write every so often and find if I could write, perhaps bring back some courage in me to write. I'm not saying that it did or didn't either.

These are all probably excuses, though I never claimed that this was my life goal. However, I thought the idea of this was mainly to encourage the 2 people who really care the most in this group to write and pave the way for their future.

Children pretend all the time to find out who they want to be and sometimes those pretendings become reality.

Maybe we still need to keep pretending, because once it's real it's no fun because it's too serious?

[thedissident]

Eh. I haven't really gotten anything out of it. I don't have nearly as much of a vested interest in continuing this as some other members, since being a poet isn't my life goal. I'm not saying you (Sandra) have more or less of a vested interest in this than anyone else, but I will make a general statement to the community that if you want to be sustained by your art instead of a more traditional job, you need to start producing that art