A book of advice columns. It is more a philosophy of life in most every answer. I wanted to write something about most every answer, because her thoughts, or the question, or something, got me thinking about what I would be writing for an answer. It is an amazing book!!
A fan letter I wrote to Ms. Strayed – Dear Sugar/ Ms. Stayed,
How are you? I am doing fine.
I am reading your book of letters to Dear Sugar. I am writing another fan letter for you to read, or not, as the case may be. I do not expect that I will be chosen to be the next ‘Dear Sugar’ because of this. 🙂 I am writing this more for myself, but hope you will enjoy reading it as well. You see I am a philosopher type guy, ya know, a Sagittarius born, so your book inspires a lot of philosophical thinking for me.
When I started college the major I chose was philosophy. It was for naught since I did not graduate, but the interest in philosophy is still in me.
As I read your answers to the letters, I am constantly writing to you – my own take on the answer and the issue, each and every letter. My wife bought the book for me because she saw it (impulse buying?), and knew I had sent off an answer (the one about whether or not to have a baby) you made to a friend because of the philosophy imbued in it. I just now came across this –
“At age 17, she was rejected from college.
At age 25, her mother died from disease.
At age 26, she suffered a miscarriage.
At age 27, she got married.
Her husband abused her. Despite this, her daughter was born.
At age 28, she got divorced and was diagnosed with severe depression.
At age 29, she was a single mother living on welfare.
At age 30, she didn’t want to be on this earth.
But, she directed all her passion into doing the one thing she could do better than anyone else.
And that was writing.
At age 31, she finally published her first book.
At age 35, she had released 4 books, and was named Author of the Year.
At age 42, she sold 11 million copies of her new book, on the first day of release.
This woman is J.K. Rowling. Remember how she considered suicide at age 30?
Today, Harry Potter is a global brand worth more than $15 billion dollars.
Never give up. Believe in yourself. Be passionate. Work hard. It’s never too late.”
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=…, and I had just read your answer to Elissa Bassist, who is now also a published author :). Maybe, thanks to you, she persevered and became what she wanted to be!!
Another one was the 1st letter about a lady who suffered a miscarriage. While reading it I remembered a cartoon about grief, so I looked it up, and could not find it. I did see another one whose author had suffered a miscarriage as well. In it she mentions that she felt guilty that maybe something she did caused it, just as your letter writer mentions as well, though for different reasons. This spurred my thinking, and I realized that that is what happens with domestic/sexual abuse victims as well – they feel like they did something to cause wwwwwwww to happen, so they suffer in silence.
I hope your income has increased, and you are able to not work another job to make ends meet. Keep it up.
Sincerely
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