Comments on: Dear Martha Beck http://www.blisscovery.com/dear-martha-beck/ Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:09:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eve http://www.blisscovery.com/dear-martha-beck/comment-page-1/#comment-678 Eve Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:02:25 +0000 http://www.blisscovery.com/?p=72#comment-678 Holy Cow! This just freaked me out- I wrote a letter to Martha Beck a few days ago on the oprah site and ended up not sending it. I'm 27 right now and smack in the middle of my quarter life crisis. What freaks me out may not sound all that impressive to you but it is to me. I just discovered recently, but after the almost-letter that I have the quarter life crisis, after horrendous months of grinding pain and depression that had me convinced I was crazy and totally screwed. I'm a lawyer. In my country, we go to a central school of law after we get our degree in law to train for a year to practice law before sitting bar exams and doing pupillage at a law firm for half a year. I quit last year and started on a series of experiments to find my career, the last one of which ended quite disgracefully as I was fired. I feel the same way about an Advocate's (Attorney's) practicing certificate as you feel about the CPA license. Plus my letter started exactly like yours, "Dear Martha Beck" you know, not dear Martha and had a paragraph beginning, "Now a little background" I know that's cheesy, but seriously, even the feel of your letter is me. I had googled Martha Beck and quarter life crisis to see if she has offered some advice somewhere. When I saw the results I thought I had accidentally sent the letter and that it had gotten published! I love this coincidence. Holy Cow! This just freaked me out- I wrote a letter to Martha Beck a few days ago on the oprah site and ended up not sending it. I’m 27 right now and smack in the middle of my quarter life crisis. What freaks me out may not sound all that impressive to you but it is to me. I just discovered recently, but after the almost-letter that I have the quarter life crisis, after horrendous months of grinding pain and depression that had me convinced I was crazy and totally screwed.

I’m a lawyer. In my country, we go to a central school of law after we get our degree in law to train for a year to practice law before sitting bar exams and doing pupillage at a law firm for half a year. I quit last year and started on a series of experiments to find my career, the last one of which ended quite disgracefully as I was fired. I feel the same way about an Advocate’s (Attorney’s) practicing certificate as you feel about the CPA license. Plus my letter started exactly like yours, “Dear Martha Beck” you know, not dear Martha and had a paragraph beginning, “Now a little background” I know that’s cheesy, but seriously, even the feel of your letter is me. I had googled Martha Beck and quarter life crisis to see if she has offered some advice somewhere. When I saw the results I thought I had accidentally sent the letter and that it had gotten published!

I love this coincidence.

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