I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'In many ways, I was born a hundred years too late. I often feel out of kilter with the modern world.
I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.
I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.
It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.
I've aged, but grown up? No.
Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.
The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.
I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.
I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.