I'm sure you've heard by now that blue is the new black, forty is the new thirty and they're lying through their teeth when they say that last thing. Also, imaginary childhood friends (you know you had one) have been replaced with online friends. They're the same in that no one ever really sees them, but you talk to them, you play with them, your other friends and family think you're just this side of a restraining jacket and you're a lot older than you were when you first had friends you never saw. Sure they're real you might say in that mocking tone you have . Well stop that. Save your mocking for later on when I tell you all about my Internet friends. No, I can't see them, or touch them, although some of them have asked me....um, well, we'll go into that later. People have become friends with other people across the world, sometimes they've become friends with people they'd never become friends with in RL. That means real life for ...
Stop working for awhile!
ReplyDeleteThat's great advice Steve....except when I have deadlines to meet.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on it though. I am. I mean the whole not-being-glued-to-my-work when the kids are home thing.
I'm making it work. I have to!
Actually, Pam - Steve's right. Sometimes you have to say no otherwise you'll start to lose perspective. Speaking from experience and because I also write, it's very much from the same angle. I don't work for anyone who wants 1000 words yesterday for nothing - I'm in charge. Yes, I may have lost out on work but I've also got a roster of clients who are satisfied with the way I work because they know they get a decent bit of work in exchange.
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