Three years of cereal
I know now I was grieving something , the death of an ambition. I started attending reading events at Green Apple Books, my local bookstore, because it was something I liked in grad school, and I had to get myself out of the house. Going to those events was (is) a way of traveling without moving; they have afforded me an incredibly valuable educati... See more
Alex Clemente P. • What Writing (and you) Have Given Me
one year of independence
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The average person goes through three to five of these massive reorientations in their adult lives; their average duration, my data show, is five years. When you do the math, that means nearly half our lives are spent responding to one of these episodes.
Bruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
