In this entry of our Poptimism series, strange emcee Alex Ludovico tells a story about his current situation to himself five-years-ago.
Dear Kyle,
I know you just left your parents house in the middle of the night with very little money. Don’t worry sir. Life gets better. Not in a financial sense, or a stability sense. It gets better because you finally figure out who you really are. I know high school was a very weird time for you. And you’re already sick of college. You’re gonna start recording all these thoughts you have. Its gonna suck when you first start. But you get pretty decent at it. Also, you’re gonna have a series of shitty relationships. But it makes you better and helps you figure out who you are as a man. People will slowly take notice. You won’t be famous or rich when you get here. But you’re much closer than you are at this moment. You finally find a good set of friends. You go through a pretty rough period of loneliness. You get really into drugs and its kind of awesome, but also a pain in the ass. I want you to remember. Its not that miserable. You’ll make it. Also, if there’s anyway you can skip those suicide attempts, please do. You regret it as soon as you try, and you hate the hospital stay.
Alex
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A product of 1987, Baltimore, Atlanta, DC, Manhattan, London, and American pop culture; supplementary to scribing, I'm a Master's candidate by occupation, drummer by passion, and culture vulture by necessity. I freelance life.
