Comments on: 24

by: belle

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:04:27 +0000

LOVE “The Awakening.” when i get back to the apartment i’m going to look for my old college copy. if it’s packed away somewhere down south , i’m heading to the union square “b&n” to buy it.

thanks so much, maggie.

by: Maggie

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:50:20 +0000

Belle,

I have to confess: I read your blog with unabashed, raw, green envy– I have long fantasized of living my life as a writer in the City. Alas, I’m 27, negative in my checking account, and proofreading direct mail… not so romantic. But I hold tight to my dream that someday I’ll be living my “real” life, if that makes any sense. Anyway, I’m reading Chopin’s The Awakening right now (as I had the Monday blues this week, too), and I thought I’d share this with you: “But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!”

Maggie

by: sarah

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:37:08 +0000

Belle- we all experience times like these. I’m 26 as well and at times I look at my life and think what have I really accomplished. I read a blog like yours and I think, “look at this girl living a life full of opportunity”. Seriously, you are so blessed! You’re such a talented writer and you get out there and take chances. Keep up the good work. In a few years you’ll probably look back at this and think, “what was I worrying about”.
I’m sad. Yesterday was crazy for me and I missed the origional post.

by: BLBC

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:53:54 +0000

Aw, come on, it was fine… even William Morris wasn’t always William Morris.

by: belle

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:25:35 +0000

not sure what “fake it” is referring to… i’m 26. everything i’ve ever written corroborates with that age bc that IS my age.

anyway, didn’t much like what i wrote yesterday. i felt that willie morris said it better and more succinctly so i kept him up and took me down.

by: BLBC

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:18:17 +0000

You couldn’t PAY ME to go back and be in my 20s… temping in a law firm, trying to get freelance work, no one (and I mean no one) returning my phone calls, living in a fifth floor walkup in Brooklyn (okay, it was a rent contral apartment i Henry Street in B’klyn Heights @ $760 a month, but still)… have since had 3 books on the NYT bestseller list, did the Today Show, Larry King, much more romances, travel, cool experiences, money, great apartment, great haircut, etc (!)

Now if we could only get a Democrat in the White House.

Seriously, if I had to go back and be 20-ish I would put a gun to my head… not that that helps all the 20 year olds out there. Each age has its pluses and minuses. Had I known how my life would turn out, I would have socialized even more and spent not one second worrying about anything. Plus, everyone I loved was still alive and we (friends, etc) were all together.

Enjoy whatever stage you are at.

“Someday, this will all be an anecdote.”

BTW, why did you delete blog?

by: fakeit

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:02:39 +0000

What the hell are you on about? And are you counting your age backwards now?

Cop on.

by: PP

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:30:45 +0000

Chin up B, this woebegon prattle is piddling.

ps-Nothing beats 30s. Simply put, more money.

by: Pia

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:29:14 +0000

Lovely quote, but why did you change this post?

I appreciated the comparisons between yourself at 24 versus yourself at 26. I’m 25 and feel like I should be more accomplished, but then I read sites like yours and feel like I’m not alone. Thanks for sharing.

by: Buffy

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:16:45 +0000

Mondays are made to be awful, I think. And while awful may lead to wonderful writing…it doesn’t always translate to the blog.

Try photography. Capture an image. Something you love. Something you hate. Something from ‘then’. Something from ‘now’.

It’s what I do when words wont come.