ascetic bohemianism?
word. i wonder if it's a bad or a good sign that i'm only 24 and i already feel this way... (link via blissblog)
COMMENTS:
said: wait... is he just trying to make himself feel better about being poor and boring? or is he just reminding himself (and us) that he already feels ok about it?
i am both of those things... i never considered that i might have already fulfilled someone else's life ambitions.
said: i read it more generally (or more positively), as being ok with being the antithesis of a young "kulchahead's" vision of success.
maybe i'm just overly sympathetic because his first paragraph describes me with uncanny accuracy (just change london to seattle and creative writing to physics), but lately i've been feeling the malaise that he alluded to (or that i inferred): like i'm in a competition to get all the degrees, read all the books, watch all the movies and listen to all the music, and... then what? be dissatisfied with myself and anxious about the furure, apparently.
a method, or hope, of dissengaement with that cycle seems very appealing right now.
said: you were pretty disengaged the last time i saw you...
said: j: are you still decomposing?
g: decompressing.
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