Really appreciated this one, Annie. I think a lot about what you said around the transition between high school and "adulthood". Specifically, when you wrote "we adults have tasted the lie that is thinking we can ever know where we will end up." I wonder sometimes about whether or not life circumstance allows for this type of liberated understanding of what adulthood can be. I feel that there are many people, actually, who actually can and do know exactly where they'll end up. Are they happy or satisfied or even aware? I don't know. I also love the idea of life as a thesaurus, but who gets to take advantage of the Roget-style litany of themes and who is stuck with the limits of thesaurus.com? Just something on which I'm noodling. Thanks, as always, for writing.
Really appreciated this one, Annie. I think a lot about what you said around the transition between high school and "adulthood". Specifically, when you wrote "we adults have tasted the lie that is thinking we can ever know where we will end up." I wonder sometimes about whether or not life circumstance allows for this type of liberated understanding of what adulthood can be. I feel that there are many people, actually, who actually can and do know exactly where they'll end up. Are they happy or satisfied or even aware? I don't know. I also love the idea of life as a thesaurus, but who gets to take advantage of the Roget-style litany of themes and who is stuck with the limits of thesaurus.com? Just something on which I'm noodling. Thanks, as always, for writing.