I'm unsure of the protocol for a guy my age to be using the word cool, I'm certain it is frowned upon lol.
I use it all the time with my daughter and now she uses it - and it sounds weird :D
I was gonna weigh in with advice on how to approach that particular decision, but now I think about it, how can I?
I can't either - it isn't easy, but I guess I better.
Sometimes we write about incredibly similar themes but there is something I find in your writing that is often absent from mine and I kinda need to see it from time to time.
It is hard to say. You know when there are those "critically acclaimed" movies/books etc, then you watch or rad and find that there is nothing in it for you? It is about preference. One thing that I have always done in my writing is put myself into it and even in my fiction work, I am authentic, if that makes sense. What this means for each person is different, but I end up just writing and posting on the fly, with little thought to form or whether it is precisely what the audience wants. I think that because of this, people find something in there for them, like a movie from your home town.
his post made me question all the posts in which I bitch about my job. Maybe I have what I deserve, what I have earned...
Jobs are funny things. We need them, but most of them are essentially useless to the survival of us or humanity, past what we have engineered them to provide, money. I have done many things I dislike for work in order to get money and I am okay with it, as long as I am able to do enough of what I do like, enjoy and am good at. Often these days, people use their leisure time to avoid their work time, rather than their work time to empower their leisure time.
Ya get the point though, it was about having aspirations and being defined by something as erroneous as class, poverty, or geographic location. Huxley nailed it, right?
We are all typecast based on the opinions of others. A lot of people try to "prove them wrong", but I have taken the approach that I have nothing to prove to others, they can think as they please. However, for me to find my potential, I have to prove it exists. If I prove it exists and they still typecast, they are denying themselves the truth knowingly - that is on them, as opinions always are.
It is apple season here ;)