It's kind of scary. Here we are in our sixth decade and we get that "oh, shit moment" that we are again screwing up. I guess I should be grateful that I had that moment but I still feel sheepish that it was necessary. After it, my business got hot and my personality got less angry.
Maybe it was because I never was cool. So, I set out as an early adopter of digital media to, well, pass myself off as cool. Unfortunately, it worked. I got to blog for AOL and hip tabloid Abovethelaw.com linked to my post.
Then it dawned on me that I had lost my voice as a writer and my sense of self as a woman who had learned a lot from adversity. I stopped chasing what was cool on the web and on mobile.
What will be the next "oh, shit moment?" I suspect it will be related to all those I had been angry with for at least four decades. I might find out all that they weren't so bad.
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