sunset soda club
i fell for a joke album announcement from my favorite kpop group a few days ago, but i don't feel bad about it because i don't think it was just me
there have been some things to look forward to, even if that isn't one of them. like, the persona 6 announcement and the p4r tease - persona 4 is my favorite of the series, and i'm excited to get to experience it in a way that feels new again! kanji tatsumi, i'm on my way
another thing that was meaningful to me was that i got a letter from one of my favorite authors. i ordered a book from her online shop and i asked if she could inscribe it with any advice she might have had for getting older and instead, i got this typed letter
i'll type it out below, maybe someone else can get something from it:
"Dear X:
Usually, I have really nice thank you cards to send with orders, but I'm a) out of them and b) wanting to write a longer message to you about your thirtieth birthday.
I turned thirty in 2010. Don't do the math. Things were bleak for me. My career seemed like it was over. I was losing my house. Debt? Monumental. I thought everything in my life was going to be set in stone in my twenties, and I had fucked everything up.
That turned out to not be true. My thirties were a great decade! I think it's because everyone acted like thirty was some deadline and I had to have all my life decisions made and everything figured out by 11:59pm July 14, 2010 or everything would fall apart.
Well, I still don't have everything figured out, and neither do any of my friends who are in their thirties or above, and we're still truckin'. You're gonna be fine. You're still producing collagen. Your thirties are going to be like the best parts of your twenties, but with a now-developed prefrontal cortex.
I hope any of this helped you feel better."