Travel Won't Save You. You Will.

Travel Won't Save You. You Will.

I received a handful of gift cards for my 21st birthday, including one to Barnes and Nobles (my one true weakness).  So of course, I rushed out to the store to gift myself with yet more books to throw onto my "to be read pile".  I came home clutching Juliet Marillier's Flame of Sevenwaters (the last in her Sevenwaters saga) and Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic, which I had been dying to get my hands on for the last several months.

There's a painful irony there, however, considering that in my recent blog post, Depression Riding Shotgun, I called out Gilbert's best-selling book  Eat Pray Love as "a fucking myth".

I want to elaborate on that for a moment.

Creation Isn't Easy

Creation Isn't Easy

A while back, I started looking at all of this old footage I had accumulated my freshman year of college (when I still had hopes of vlogging consistently), and it used to make me feel so bitter.

I remember starkly, I was watching this younger version of myself blithely say to friends, "Can you imagine when we finally get the point where we can say, I'm a director? Like, when we can list that as our occupation!" and I couldn't stop myself from cringing inwardly, even as I felt myself bubbling over with envy.