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Michael Edward's avatar

I think it was David Foster Wallace who said something to effect of, (I am definitely paraphrasing): “we should be excused for feeling like the world revolves around us, after all, from behind our eyes it really seems like it does”.

For a while I worried about writing about myself all the time. But eventually, I came to the conclusion that, for me, it’s only true thing I can write about. I mean, I don’t want to write “you” stuff and preach to people I don’t know about what I think they should do. And I don’t want to write “we” stuff because I know everyone’s experiences are different and I don’t want to speak for others. And I definitely don’t want to write about any sort of ‘facts’ or ‘truths’ or ‘theories’ because I’m doubtful of all of them to some degree or another. So in the end, I realised all that was left was for me to talk about my experiences, and trust that my readers would be able to gleam their own lessons from my experiences if those experiences were relatable or similar to things they’ve gone through. And so, yeah, my long winded point is please please please — keep writing about you! Because I for one, like it :)

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Sidney Reed's avatar

To quote a very wise person in my life, "An accusation is the closest thing you'll get to a confession from a narcissist."

Yanno, an *actual* one.

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