Honestly, your list of ways you and Sean are nontraditional sounds like a description of my ideal life. There's got to be some irony in the large number of people who feel individually weird/concerned about being nontraditional. I still think about my high school English teacher's comment that he had never, in 28 years of teaching, had anyone interpret a certain passage the way I did, but he was giving me an A anyway because I explained myself clearly. Am I really THAT different? Will my own writing read like well-supported nonsense to the rest of Substack? Will they hate me—or, worse, ignore me? My point is, you're not alone. ;)
"Well-supported nonsense" is one of my new favorite phrases. Thank you for this—the whole comment. Feelings about being "different" are sooo strange and complex sometimes. How can I love (like, almost obnoxiously love) and then also worry about something so much at the same time?! The obvious answer is because we are humans, complex emotional creatures, but still... gets to me on occasion.
Honestly, your list of ways you and Sean are nontraditional sounds like a description of my ideal life. There's got to be some irony in the large number of people who feel individually weird/concerned about being nontraditional. I still think about my high school English teacher's comment that he had never, in 28 years of teaching, had anyone interpret a certain passage the way I did, but he was giving me an A anyway because I explained myself clearly. Am I really THAT different? Will my own writing read like well-supported nonsense to the rest of Substack? Will they hate me—or, worse, ignore me? My point is, you're not alone. ;)
"Well-supported nonsense" is one of my new favorite phrases. Thank you for this—the whole comment. Feelings about being "different" are sooo strange and complex sometimes. How can I love (like, almost obnoxiously love) and then also worry about something so much at the same time?! The obvious answer is because we are humans, complex emotional creatures, but still... gets to me on occasion.