An Excerpt From the Novel I’m Drafting That Is Totally Relevant to This Week’s Discussion
So… after yesterday’s post about experiencing imposter syndrome in relation to your career/life/finances/achievements, and Lucy Bellwood’s comment that our relationship to money and success changes as we grow older and/or more successful, well… it made me think “wait, I just wrote about that.”
Which means that it’s time for another excerpt from NEXT BOOK, aka A COINCIDENCE OF DOORS, aka THE NOVEL THAT WON’T GET PUBLISHED ANYTIME SOON BECAUSE IT’S NOWHERE NEAR READY YET.
I’ll present it without context, except to say “it’s supposed to be a Slack conversation.”
Here you go. ❤️
ellen.everton: omg that is the cutest sono ever
heidi.brinley: thx I made it myself
heidi.brinley: just the fetus not the sonogram
heidi.brinley: or did li’l feety make itself?
heidi.brinley: I don’t have the brain to wrap around that
ellen.everton: how are you doing?
heidi.brinley: PREGNATE
heidi.brinley: no starch masks yet though
heidi.brinley: honestly this is very weird
ellen.everton: adult life is consistently very weird
ellen.everton: they did not teach us this in school
mona.tiedeman: it took me until this year to understand that adults go through developmental phases just like children do
heidi.brinley: did you not read your ERIK ERIKSON
heidi.brinley: the man so nice they named him twice
mona.tiedeman: not just integration vs. despair or whatever it is, though
mona.tiedeman: everyone I know who’s entered their 50s in the past few years has changed in the exact same way
mona.tiedeman: and my dad decided to stop drinking when he turned 40
mona.tiedeman: and now I’m thinking that when I move, I’ll stop drinking too
mona.tiedeman: just establish myself in this new place as a non-drinker
mona.tiedeman: and I don’t know why except I just got tired of it
mona.tiedeman: the way it made me feel
heidi.brinley: you are ON TREND tho
heidi.brinley: it is a Millennial thing, we’re all teetotaling, I read an article
heidi.brinley: no wait I meant we’re totally teetotaling, that’s way better
heidi.brinley: and Tasha’s teetotaling the sosh meeds, she literally sent me A CARD last week
heidi.brinley: the Millennials are giving up
mona.tiedeman: see that’s exactly what I mean though
mona.tiedeman: it’s not a Millennial thing, it’s a “we’re exiting our 30s and our bodies are starting to hurt and suddenly we’re becoming obsessed with our health” thing
mona.tiedeman: just like my parents did when they were that age
mona.tiedeman: my mom got really into yoga
mona.tiedeman: so in your late 30s you try to change everything while you still can, and then in your late 40s you realize you can’t change everything and so you shit the bed
mona.tiedeman: my parents spent at least two years just screaming at each other
ellen.everton: my mother
mona.tiedeman: sorry I should have thought
ellen.everton: no, I think you’re right
heidi.brinley: my baby book is full of phases but then it just stops
heidi.brinley: there should be, like, the boy band phase
heidi.brinley: the friendship bracelet phase
heidi.brinley: (that one comes first)
heidi.brinley: moms should know about these phases
ellen.everton: and we should also know about our parents’ phases
ellen.everton: it would help us understand them more