I think it's more important to concentrate on trying to be, simply, happy. Once you've known deep despair, you feel even more motivated to be as happy as possible. That's how I feel.
Emily Susan RappI have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doing laundry, talking on the phone, etc. But suddenly I was like a laser beam: I was relentlessly focused, sometimes to the detriment of other things.
Emily Susan RappPeople romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.
Emily Susan RappI honestly turned to writing because I didn't know what else to do, and because a friend had gently suggested it.
Emily Susan Rapp