Dear Elsa,
Over the past few years of my adult life, I have made terrible career and life decisions. I'm supposed to be the 'brainy' one, the one that should be doing GREAT things with her life. But it hasn't worked out that way.
First, I dropped out of school due to bullying. I tried to go back to studying... but my heart was not in it. So I joined the armed forces as an engineer... but even though I was pretty darn good at the job, I just was not happy. I realized I was just trying to make my parents happy and proud, and so I dropped out.
There have been many other career paths that I have failed at. It's getting to a point where I don't want to try anymore. I feel completely lost. I have no direction in my life and no sense of purpose. I do try to come up with new ideas to make it all seem worthwhile, like trying to get my degree or maybe setting up my own business. But I just can't seem to make any of these things happen. All I do is dream.
I'm lost and sad with no one to turn to. Please help!
Sign me,
Hurting
Dear Hurting,
I agree you are a brainy one. You’re twenty-three years old and you just laid out your whole birth chart! Your whole character, I mean. Everything you need to know about you is in your post. Most people reach thirty, forty, or even fifty and still have no idea who they are.
Now here’s my advice. SLOW DOWN. Slow way down, and take each of these things one by one. It’s like this:
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1 - Mr. Real Estate
Hey Elsa,
I just got a really whacky out-there idea. How about doing the charts of say, oh, I don't know, some Blogcritics, and then writing a little bit about them, perhaps predicting where these Blogcritics will be 10 years from now, in one post, or a few separate ones.
It's sure to bring plenty of readers into your fold.
I volunteer to be your first Blogcritic. Hopefully Eric will volunteer and some other folks will, as well. This'll be fun and entertaining for sure.
Any other Blogcritics want to volunteer if Elsa decides to take this idea and run with it?
2 - elsa
Yeah, I'll do that. I’d like that. But freestyle! No format, so it’s fun for me.
John, you can be the first lab rat! Please send your birth data (date, city, exact time) to elsa at Comcast.net. I’ll do something with it but I won’t say what…
::cackle:: ::licks her chops:: ::sharpens her knife::
Meantime, I’ll check with an editor to make sure this is okay. Will send you something regardless, just for having the idea. And it’s a good one, because I don’t know any of you and that’s way I like it.
There’s nothing worse than you mother-in-law asking you to read her chart, you know?
::smiles and rolls eyes::