I'm glad to hear Do the Right Thing still holds up because I loved that film eight billion years ago when it came out.
With the caveat that I hate when someone is like "hm, thinking of giving up writing" and everyone is all "NO! NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER SURRENDER!" (because, like, there are lots of other worthwhile things to do with your time, and sometimes you do need a break or even just to quit)... once you see all the bullshit for the bullshit it is... you can just write? I hope I don't sound wanky when I say that it's really the work that matters in the end. And the readers. Sometimes it seems like the only readers left are other writers, but there's more, readers who don't know or care about online spats or culture war nonsense and just love books. If I have an "ideal reader" in mind when I'm writing (that's not me), it's that person.
Also, I'm with Georgina that angst and despair are overrated. And being physically and mentally and emotionally healthy is underrated.
I'm glad to hear Do the Right Thing still holds up because I loved that film eight billion years ago when it came out.
With the caveat that I hate when someone is like "hm, thinking of giving up writing" and everyone is all "NO! NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER SURRENDER!" (because, like, there are lots of other worthwhile things to do with your time, and sometimes you do need a break or even just to quit)... once you see all the bullshit for the bullshit it is... you can just write? I hope I don't sound wanky when I say that it's really the work that matters in the end. And the readers. Sometimes it seems like the only readers left are other writers, but there's more, readers who don't know or care about online spats or culture war nonsense and just love books. If I have an "ideal reader" in mind when I'm writing (that's not me), it's that person.
Also, I'm with Georgina that angst and despair are overrated. And being physically and mentally and emotionally healthy is underrated.
Got to the end of Do the Right Thing and said, “Wow, what a movie” (to no one, I guess, since I watched it by myself). So yeah, it holds up :)
I presumably would not have appreciated it when it came out, since I was busy being four years old and into Ninja Turtles
I dunno. Angst and despair are overrated. Maybe being happy and peaceful was always the real prize.
I think a lot about that time on The Simpsons when Lenny said, “If I didn’t have inner peace, I’d go nuts!”
Hahaha love that!