life and art, church and state

You don't have to live it how you write it. As the author your work is important but your life is even more important. Writing at all consistently can leave you wondering why you do it, if you do it to be acknowledged by others and of course no matter who you are you do to a certain extent. It is easy to fall so far into writing that you lose a grip on how important other things are.

Writing is so wonderful isn't it? You have power over words and a whole fictionalized world that you can both build and destroy at any point. You can articulate any number of important points and when others read them they won't have thought about it before. Not like that.

Most of us spend our time writing about the activity of humans, so how much do you miss when you don't dedicate yourself enough to the humans around you. Make hard choices, hug the ones you might lose and value humanity and good humor over intelligence. Value the chance you have to make other people happier for having known you, and the chance you have to be happier for knowing them.

I don't need to build that many worlds, I already have one and the more you try to escape it the harder it taps on your shoulder to turn you back around.

Fuck you

this isn't corny