Wow Jamie! Happy Birthday to Ever Get Home! Happy one year of writing again! This post got me thinking about your writing, and it's over 17 years since I first read what became the TWLOHA story on MySpace. And it made me think of all the things I've been through since then, the ups and the downs, bad and good, and all the people who I've known since then, people who have come and gone, friends who I wasn't enough for, and all through that your writing was the one constant I had.
I had never felt the kindness you talked about in the first TWLOHA story, but it gave me hope that such kindness was possible. And over the years I have learned so much from your writing, at the very core of it all was that I matter, because growing up I'd always been told I didn't, I wasn't good enough, or special enough. The one person who told me I was special did it so that I wouldn't tell anyone he was hurting me. But your writing showed me that I DO matter, that how I feel matters, and I learned hope, I learned how to hold on through the storms. Your writing has helped me in so much of my healing, words and phrases from your writing are so much of the very foundations of my strength and I could go on forever listing them all so I won't but reading this made me realise just how grateful I am for you, for all the connections I've been lucky enough to have with you over the years and for the fact that you not only shared your writing with us all those years ago on MySpace but that you continued to do so, and that you made the choice to start writing again one year ago too.
Thank you Jamie for sharing your words with all of us. You always have my full support in whatever you choose to do, and one of these days I'll be better financially so I can afford your own merch (hopefully). Thank you Jamie for always being you!
SO glad you, your thoughts and words are showing up here. B x
Wow Jamie! Happy Birthday to Ever Get Home! Happy one year of writing again! This post got me thinking about your writing, and it's over 17 years since I first read what became the TWLOHA story on MySpace. And it made me think of all the things I've been through since then, the ups and the downs, bad and good, and all the people who I've known since then, people who have come and gone, friends who I wasn't enough for, and all through that your writing was the one constant I had.
I had never felt the kindness you talked about in the first TWLOHA story, but it gave me hope that such kindness was possible. And over the years I have learned so much from your writing, at the very core of it all was that I matter, because growing up I'd always been told I didn't, I wasn't good enough, or special enough. The one person who told me I was special did it so that I wouldn't tell anyone he was hurting me. But your writing showed me that I DO matter, that how I feel matters, and I learned hope, I learned how to hold on through the storms. Your writing has helped me in so much of my healing, words and phrases from your writing are so much of the very foundations of my strength and I could go on forever listing them all so I won't but reading this made me realise just how grateful I am for you, for all the connections I've been lucky enough to have with you over the years and for the fact that you not only shared your writing with us all those years ago on MySpace but that you continued to do so, and that you made the choice to start writing again one year ago too.
Thank you Jamie for sharing your words with all of us. You always have my full support in whatever you choose to do, and one of these days I'll be better financially so I can afford your own merch (hopefully). Thank you Jamie for always being you!
Happy to support you and that you’ve been writing again! Also the adhd and avoidance and all that? I FEEL THAT IN MY SOUL (major current struggle lol)