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.