No, I don’t hate my life, though I certainly have at various times in my life. I’m sure that you probably have, too.
Getting divorced in my early 20′s wasn’t such a good time for me.
I’d dropped out of college to be with this girl, and married her. She was a romantic and a poet… and she seemed to be a blossom of love itself. Within a year she was having an affair with my best friend, and I was fairly well devastated. (And angry.)
I was in this time in my life when I felt order than most of my cohorts, and I hadn’t really found my place (or all of my people) yet. I quit my job and found another as a baker, and started back in school again. I got more bands going, and started to string together my life, one thread at a time.
A couple of years later I dropped out of college again (so very close to that worthless Fine Art degree) to become a (fledgling) graphic designer. This was more momentous than I realized at the time; it afforded me the skills to finally create the way that I wanted to, and allowed me the knowledge to design the things that I do now with Steam Crow. I shudder to think what I’d be doing now if I’d not found a design job; I’m pretty certain I would have found my way to Design one way or another.
Today, I’m very happy with the choices that I’ve made since that first failure; I’ve surrounded myself with solid folk in the years since. (And a great girl like Dawna.)
Betrayers can pike it.
- Daniel
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Steampunk Tetris?
Or at the very least, trap tetris.
I discovered one thing early on in life that has made things easier to deal with…
I don’t have friends, and I never really needed them, but I do have an ever-diminishing circle of people I can barely tolerate that serves a similar purpose.
And before folks jump on the autism bandwagon, it’s not Aspergers, it’s misanthropy, look it up.
It’s nothing personal, I just don’t like humans.
I would like a “Betrayers can pike it.” shirt. Or at least a button.
I’d like to second this nomination.
You can’t “Shutter” to think. You close the shutters. You “shudder to think.” Have a nice frackin’ life.
PS I hate my life.
I never said that I didn’t need an editor.
Thx.