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"I’m so tired to make myself bigger than I am" | The Muse Letter No. 134
This year has been so full on, that I sometimes forget that I published a book six months ago. That I worked on said book through Christmas and New Year’s Eve, that I didn’t take a break last summer and wrote The Glimpses instead.
It’s nice when things are growing and changing and moving forward but now at the beginning of August, I’m so tired of growing myself bigger than I am, I just want to make my bed and sleep in it. I want to swim in the medium lane and not care that this guy who is too fast for it just told me I am slow. I am not the problem. It’s you, I say.
I’m so tired of not being seen by those at the gates, I am building my own castle and swallow the key.
I need some time to be alone; not be out here where you’re only really heard when you write a bad review; when they acknowledge you when you stop singing their tune and march to the beat of your own drum.
When your own opinion matters to you.
I don’t care anymore about validation, I just ca…