Hello again, dear readers. It’s a sad time, the Interim Shorts period is almost over. But don’t fret, we still have the April series coming at you soon, or soon enough, and it’s a PRL favorite. Get ready for the return of the Shuffle Anthology with an all new playlist for 2022! I’m excited, I bet you are too.
It’s been a good Interim period this year. We made it through the Dead of Winter with new characters to follow in the coming volumes of the Serials. It should be a good summer, I’m hoping, praying and wishing for it. After the darkness, it’s time to embrace the light, and Lord knows I’ve been wallowing in some darkness of my own. It’s hard to be a different person, even when it’s the only thing you think about. Change requires constant work, and change for the better is a lifelong commitment. Of course I wish I could just wake up tomorrow with a different mentality, a different view of the world, but shortcuts are hardly ever effective. I will be ok, we all can be if we are honest with ourselves and make good faith efforts to do good. I’m committed to that.
Before I wrap up this rant, I just want to say that I turned 36 recently and I realized, maybe not for the first time, how immature I am. Maybe others can relate, but my twenties and thirties so far have been almost indistinguishable. Of course I’ve progressed in a lot of ways, some change is hard to deny, but my interiority, my sense of myself, has largely stayed the same. I’m trying to see myself for where I am in my life because I need to decide what I want the rest of my life to be. I want to act my age, I definitely don’t right now, but I think it’s rooted in me being afraid to venture out into the world. Writing like we do here is a very consuming hobby and I am proud of the work we do, but a man can have more than one hobby. A man should have friends and exist in the world. I need to work on that, I think it’ll make it easier to feel my age. I don’t know.
Rant over. Sorry it went on for so long. Quick shout out to someone special. You’ll see, I’ll figure it out. I’m committed to that, too.
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