Alex Dobrenko` on Substack
I know now I was grieving something , the death of an ambition. I started attending reading events at Green Apple Books, my local bookstore, because it was something I liked in grad school, and I had to get myself out of the house. Going to those events was (is) a way of traveling without moving; they have afforded me an incredibly valuable educati... See more
Alex Clemente P. • What Writing (and you) Have Given Me
You have a lot of work to do.
After all, you have to make some big changes in your life. Will you focus on the work—and all the challenges of doing something new—or will you set your sights on your dream? In the first case, you are working with anxiety, in the sec-ond, anticipation.
Anxiety is stress. It is worrying about something in the future. I o
... See moreJamey: Yes. What I want to do is take a deep breath and then sink low enough in the pool that I can feel the bottom and push off from it. I want to know what’s down there. I want to know how bad it truly is. I want to avoid a scenario in which my fear and anxiety prevent me from looking at the truth, but I also want to avoid a situation where I am
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