Sidebar: My Path
Don’t remember who said it, but there’s something about the quote, paraphrased below, that sticks like beach tar to fleshy foot:
“Self deception is such an insidious thing; not only are you lying to yourself, but then the lie covers its own tracks, so you never realize it existed to begin with.”
The words [...]
There’s this image of Will I can’t get out of my bed.
Perched on a ledge, his legs and fashionably plaid shorts dangling over the edge; below them, a 12-foot drop into sand. His brown Hollister shirt sopping in his perspiration, like he just pulled it from a bath drawn from his own sweat. Water beads [...]
“It’s all about who you know.”
Not that truth isn’t buried in this concept, but it’s disheartening to hear the divide between success and failure glossed over with a cliché and wave of a snooty hand. Is “who you know” really what it comes down to? Are talent and ambition just the side ponies accompanying the [...]
He said he needed to get out. Out of Albany, out from his family, who had his back since forever, really. It was the reason he stopped trying in high school (“I stopped taking it seriously, since I always knew the family business was going to be there.”)
That was six years ago, [...]
The good news: my foot broke the bike’s fall. If I irreparably damaged Teddy’s two months before we left for Los Angeles, I wouldn’t forgive myself.
The bad news: my foot broke the bike’s fall.
In the background, I heard the engine putter to silence as I remembered the last time I laid the [...]
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Chris moved from NY to Los Angeles to build his entertainment background and create content. He writes about that here. [more...]
