Storyboard, or All of the Ways I’ve Kept Myself Alive
Random notes on a 26-year old’s wild and wondrous life
Every journey of a thousand miles begins with one step — we are all great journeys in progress.
This journey begins when a man and a woman go out on a date.
Step 2: The man and the woman go out on a second date
Step 25: They have sex.
Step 40: They give birth to a son.
Step 45: The boy, full of love and laughter, walks into life unguarded.
Sometimes the road is littered with potholes, and we stumble and kick rocks; all we have to do is keep walking. The boy first learns this in step 115, when his mother smiles at him and dies.
Step 180: Everybody says time heals all wounds, but what do you do when its hands are stuck in a blur?
Step 185: You’d think you could bury your head in schoolwork, then career, then money, but you wake up every day with paper cuts.
Step 500: Depression is not a cloudy day or a grey sky; depression is a complete lack of sky. There are days when the sun disappears, even though it’s 40 degrees outside.
Step 560: Towards the end of this journey, you will complain about how everything was so…
