So I was at work today, listening to a podcast (The Writer's Block...PBS?) and it was one of those podcasts that make you stop working and start listening. Not just the type of listening like the way you listen to music mindlessly while working, but listening the way you listen when you can't do anything but listen because what you're listening to compels you to Just Listen (anybody else read that Sarah Dessen book?). That kind of listening.
I was listening to an excerpt from Tiny Beautiful Things (http://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Beautiful-Things-Advice-Sugar/dp/0307949338), which I'd heard about and had been curious about but hadn't read. And now it's on my to-read list. I'm not sure how long it'll take me to get the book (let's just say the list is a long one and leave it at that), but I definitely want to read it.
This is an excerpt from the excerpt she read from. Find the whole column here: http://therumpus.net/2011/02/dear-sugar-the-rumpus-advice-column-64/
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will
be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll
hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go.
Acceptance is a small, quiet room.
...
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs.
The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours
reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s
diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave
under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.
To long meandering walks and reading and wondering, and yes, even shitty jobs, because they are "your becoming." To becoming.
