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May 15Liked by Rachel Kramer Bussel

Can't wait to read it. I watched a visionary selling her social media advice yesterday. It gave me great grief. A minute after this showed up in my inbox I'd written this in my online diary. "Will update dreams and digital convos update before everything else. Will record this person's advice at 12 but not going to listen and hopefully when they send out the repeat it will be visual but she made me insecure yesterday and I need to listen to me… not try to compete with the youth of today."

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May 15Liked by Rachel Kramer Bussel

I was repeating the thing I was half an hour late to yesterday. I'm listening to you right now and grateful.

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May 15Liked by Rachel Kramer Bussel

My mom died for years ago this month. I can relate to how you described your new life of caregiving duty and obligation. But this really all started for me in 2014... I'm just resurfacing emotionally. But we had a legal issue that outlasted my folks by two years and my brother whom I don't talk to anymore... Going back to listening to you. Very comforting.

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I’m not glad you can relate but I’m glad this was helpful. I don’t think anyone should feel grief or pressure to post online. It’s SOCIAL media but for so many of us it feels like all work and no play and I’m trying to get out of that cycle. Easier said than done though!

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I've gone down a rabbit hole and now watching the resentment reel you shared. I'm 64. I don't have the right lights and pretty sure now I don't want to even pretend I want to have them! Thank you so much. I see you wrote this in April but it got to me at the perfect moment!

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P.S. One of my stories was in one of your collections a long time ago. You have really done amazing work.

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