Sorry Folks

I’ve been read­ing some of my old posts. I think I bummed myself out. No won­der no one reads this site. I knew I com­plained a lot, but I didn’t real­ize I was such a god­damn whiner.

I’m sorry.

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  • Plenty of peo­ple read this site. Dan­ger­ous lon­ers, autis­tic kids, Amer­i­can Sign Language-fluent Bonobo chimps, Jesus (My Lord and Sav­ior, Praise Jesus), Jesus’ uncle Louie (Louis Christ), the dis-enfranchised, the Illu­mi­nati, the ene­mies of metal, and myself. We all whine some­times, don’t worry about it.

  • Hi, Justin–

    I’ve been read­ing you for awhile and emailed you once, I think, but I want to write here “offi­cially” now to let you know that some­thing you wrote here last year helped me a lot while I was sort­ing out some things. In one post last year–that you would prob­a­bly call whiney and a bum­mer :) –you wrote, “I think it takes an ele­ment of unhap­pi­ness to find what really makes you happy.” When I first read that, I emailed the line–and a link to the blog-post–to myself, and I found myself think­ing about it a lot last year. I was pretty down and mis­er­able in 2006 and spent all of 2007 chang­ing things and set­ting out to make a bet­ter and hap­pier life for myself. And things are really good these days: A job I like bet­ter than the one I had before )although I too share your mega-student loan debt and all those con­cerns [The job I have now isn’t ideal, but it’s bet­ter], I moved to a new city and in with my boyfriend here last fall, and I gen­er­ally just feel like I’m find­ing my way out of a dark pit. Your “Gripes and Nos­tal­gia” post and that line from it from way-back just helped me sort out a bunch of those things.

    This is all sound­ing cornier than I’d like, so I’ll wrap it up, but thank you–belatedly, obviously–for writ­ing out those old “whines.” I didn’t read them as whines at all, as you can see: I just read them as thought-sorting, and I’m grate­ful you shared them here. Best Wishes, Val

  • Wow, thats a really nice com­ment from a com­plete stranger. Speak up a lit­tle more from now on and it might encour­age me to write more.

    What city did you guys move to?

  • I’ll com­ment more often now, sure. :)

    We’re in Pitts­burgh. Mike’s been here a few years, and I lived about an hour and a half away.

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