[Fluff time] Have you made enough mistakes and had life happen to you to profit from it?

I have made lots of typos and than life happened to make them infinitive sources of humor.

Depends on what you look at as profit…I too have had a lot of life happen to me that I didn’t ask for and didn’t want, but I’ve managed to turn as much of it positive as I can.

I had this huge realization in college that helped me get over a lot of my anxiety about the future in terms of my health. I took a creative writing class, and of the 3 stories I wrote, the one that was loosely based on the health shit I’ve been through was by far my best. Because I was following that classic, good advice: write what you know.

I realized then that suffering had brought some wisdom, it had brought me the knowledge I needed to make a piece of good art, and hey, if more shit happens to me down the road, that’s just more shit I know about, can speak about in an educated way, and can make art about.

It doesn’t totally offset how much all of the shit has sucked, but it’s something positive (a “profit”) that came out of it.