When you read this you will be in a dark place with no believable escape. And you will hate the person who wrote this. You'll be tempted to close out of this immediately, what do you have to learn from me anyways? And though I beg you to not do that.

When you wrote this, ten years ago, you were in a room, cold one bed room apartment, somewhere in what they used to call flyover country, before they cancelled that term, thinking about

Netflix

stock prices while the smell of frying

eggplant

filled the air. The

Alen

Breathe Smart air purifier next to you was going crazy. You couldn't wait to eat some sichuan eggplant with some koshikari

rice

, cooked in a sauce pan to perfection.

By the time you read this you'll be using a

rice cooker

. By then your apartment won't be as cold. By then you'll understand a lot more. And yet the world will not be any easier. 

Cheers!